PrintMay 5, 2010
The Intellectual Hegemon
Sometimes even intellectuals get duped. But too often, they dupe us.There is a journal called Social Text. Its own website describes it as follows.Social Text covers a broad spectrum of social and cultural phenomena from a radical perspective, applying critical theory and methods to the world at large. Over the years it has provided a forum for important debates on marxism, feminism, postcolonialism, ethnic and critical race studies, postmodernism, queer theory, and popular culture [sic, sic and double-sic].Some intellectuals who have been published in Social Text include Dr. Cornel West (magna cum laude Harvard, Princeton, Princeton professor, author of Race Matters) and the late Edward Said (Columbia professor, author of Orientalism). As an example of what gets published in this journal, here is an excerpt from a recent issue.This essay inquires into the relationship between translation and empire in the United States. It argues that such a relationship cannot be...(Read Full Article)
