Cornel West? Where have I heard that name before? Could this be the same guy Kay S. Hymowitz recently cited?:

“Now, in his memoir, Brother West adds an interesting detail to the meeting with Summers that started the whole bro-haha. It seems that when they met, Summers invited West to join him in undermining Harvey Mansfield, professor of government and one of the few conservatives anywhere in Cambridge. “Help me f . . . him up,” Summers reportedly said to West, apparently apropos of nothing and with no elaboration. You read that right. “Help me f . . . him up.” “For my part,” West writes, “I was astounded that the President of Harvard would stoop to such tactics.” Indeed.”

http://www.city-journal.org/2009/eon1204kh.html

The above is a quintessential example why one should not instinctively respect a Harvard University soft science degree. It apparently really is a f…..ed up place. Well, that’s how Professor West perceives the vastly overrated school. I didn’t say it.