Teaching Great Books
Cornel West and Robert George teach the best class at Princeton.
Not only are West and George two of Princeton’s finest teachers and best-known public intellectuals, they are also — outwardly at least — one of its oddest couples. “He’s tall and I’m short,” jokes George before acknowledging that their differences run deeper than that. “He’s a man of the left and I’m on the conservative side of the ledger. We certainly have many important differences on moral and political questions, but there have been points of similarity and agreement that have come out as well.”Article: What’s the Big Idea?
