0:00 Why Cornel is running for president

10:45 How Cornel links American militarism abroad and inequality at home

15:15 Cornel’s pitch to skeptical right-of-center voters

20:30 Is there tension between Cornel’s commitment to stopping climate change and his commitment to helping the working class?

33:50 The moral potential and pitfalls of capitalism

37:34 Might Cornel inadvertently hand the election to the Republicans?

41:44 Cornel: Tim Scott and Clarence Thomas are wrong, but they’re sincere

46:06 Why Cornel thinks the US is partially culpable for the Ukraine War

52:04 Should Palestinians recognize the legitimacy of the State of Israel?

1:00:23 Cornel’s ideas about the US border

Recorded on June 16, 2023

Links and Readings

Cornel’s campaign website

Cornel’s TGS appearance with Teodros Kiros

Glenn and Richard Wolff debate capitalism and socialism

Cornel and Robert George on PBS’s Firing Line

Steve Koonin’s TGS appearance

Ernesto Cortes’s TGS appearance

Benjamin Schwartz and Christopher Layne’s Harper’s essay, “Why Are We in Ukraine?”

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