About this episode

Dr. Cornel West discusses America's founding contradictions and its current state with Coleman.

Dr. Cornel West is one of the most distinct voices in American public life. He’s a philosopher, theologian, and moral critic who has spent decades asking the toughest questions about America—what this country is and what it ought to be. He joins Coleman on the 250th anniversary of the founding to get into the state of America in 2026. They get into the founding contradictions, the ethics of manifest destiny, what American capitalism gets right and what it leaves out, the decline of religion and what has replaced it, and what he learned running for president. It ends, as all great philosophical conversations should, with his view of the Drake-versus-Kendrick beef. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

People in this episode

Host: Coleman

Guest: Dr. Cornel West

Topics covered

• American philosophy
• political ethics
• capitalism
• religion
• presidential candidacy
• cultural critique

Keywords

• Cornel West
• America
• philosophy
• capitalism
• religion
• presidential run
• Drake
• Kendrick

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: The Free Press

Books & works: Drake-versus-Kendrick beef

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