“I come from the American empire,” he intoned to the annual Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. “We have much to learn.”West illustrates himself more than most academics, almost to the point of caricature. “No, Trump is an expression of the worst of American culture and American empire. Politics, in West’s view, relates to the care of the soul as much as to public finances or foreign policy. Drone strikes that kill young people in Yemen or Pakistan and we say hardly a mumbling word, it’s immoral,” he said.

Source: National Post June 03, 2017 01:18 UTC