By Drew Grant 1/04/12 1:28pm

Occupy Wall Street

This whole courtroom is out of order!

Good Idea/Bad Idea: Occupy The (Supreme) Courts

Well if Rick Santorum can tie for first place in Iowa, we guess anything is possible. Like a mega-move comeback from an Occupy Wall Street solidarity faction, which has sent out a press release for January 20th’s “Occupy the Courts” day. No, that’s not what happens when everyone with DATS show up and pleads not guilty. It’s a Supreme Court sit-in!

Press release below. Warning: May include phrases like “Cornel West” “personhood rights” and “Corporations are NOT people!” (Which…obviously! That’s why they never get arrested!) Read More

By NYO Staff 2/28/05 12:00am

Harvard’s Larry Summers: What Was He Thinking?

University presidents should be intellectual leaders, not just fund-raisers, cheerleaders and greeters, and Harvard University president Lawrence Summers has been a fine example during the three and a half years he’s held his post. But a speech he gave recently at a conference of economists, in which he questioned the “intrinsic aptitude” of women when Read More

By NYO Staff 4/29/02 12:00am

Cornel West Scams Princeton

It’s lucky for Cornel West that the Ivy League apparently has no shortage of universities willing to abandon academic standards in return for the dubious advantage of employing a publicity-loving con man. The latest dupe: Princeton University, which has just hired the black studies “scholar” away from Harvard University. Princeton is crowing about its “coup”; Read More

By Philip Weiss 4/22/02 12:00am

In Washington, D.C., Lerner, Cornel West Cuffed for Peace

There were three police cars outside the door of Temple Shalom in Chevy Chase, Md. Inside, Julie Knoll, the temple president, advised a temple member named Leon to leave on account of his blood pressure, then went to the podium and said that the discussion was an opportunity to learn and share, and that people Read More