Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr. is the James S. McDonnel Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of African-American Studies at Princeton University, and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He is also on the Morehouse College Board of Trustees. He frequently appears in the media, as a columnist for TIME Magazine and as an MSNBC contributor on programs like Morning Joe and Deadline Whitehouse with Nicolle Wallace. He also regularly appears on Meet the Press on Sundays. Combining a scholar’s knowledge of history, a political commentator’s take on the latest events, and an activist’s passion for social justice, Glaude challenges all of us to examine our collective American conscience.

This week, the HBS hosts chat with Dr. Glaude about the role and the history of the public intellectual in America, the difference between the public intellectual and the “thought-leader” or “influencer,” and what it takes to be a public intellectual in the 21st Century.

In this episode, we refer to to the following thinkers, texts, ideas, et al.:

• Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The American Scholar” (1837)
• Educational principles of John Baptiste de La Salle, including “education in the vernacular”
• Stephen R. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (1990)
• Cornel West, Race Matters (1994)
• Edward Said, Orientalism (1979)
• Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (1994)
• Susan Sontag, On The Pain of Others (2004)
• Susan Sontag, Essays of the 1960’s and 70’s
• A.O. Scott, “How Susan Sontag Taught Me To Think” 
• Angela Y. Davis: Woman, Race & Class (1983)
• Angela Y. Davis, Feminism. Now. (2022)
• C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite (2000)
• C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination (1960)
• C. Wright Mills, Social Construction of Reality (1991)
• John Dewey, Democracy and Education (1916)
• The Occupy Movement
• On the “great men theory” see: Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship, and the Heroic in History (1841)
• Rachel M. Blum and Christopher Sebastian Parker, Panel Study of the MAGA movement
• Steve Bannon
• Peter Theil
• George Will
• William F. Buckley, Jr.
• David Masciotra, “Anti-intellectualism is back– because it never went away. And it’s killing America” (2020)
• John Dewey, “The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy” (1910)
• Imani Perry, “The New Black Public Intellectual”
• Showtime documentary series, “The Fourth Estate” 
• Michael Omi and Howard Winant, Racial Formation in the United States (2014)
• Leon Wieseltier’s critique of Cornel West, “All and Nothing At All” (1995)
• Eddie Glaude, Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own (2021)
• Amazon Labor Union organizer Chris Smalls
• Tavis Smiley‘s radio series “State of the Black Union”
• Eddie Glaude, Jr., Exodus: Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century America (2000)
• “The death of the academic book and the path to Open Access”
• Jennifer Wolfe Thompson, “The Death of the Scholarly Manuscript in the Humanities?”
• Kamden K. Strunk, “Demystifying and Democratizing Tenure and Promotion”
• Jennifer Davis, “Early-career professors want changes in how tenure is evaluated in light of pandemic effects on productivity”
• Ellen Belluomini, Melanie Sage, and Laurel Hitchcock, “Why Peer Reviewed Blog Posts should count for Tenure”
•  Eddie Glaude, Jr., History is US podcast

If you enjoy  listening to Hotel Bar Sessions podcast, please be sure to subscribe, submit a rating/review, and follow us on Twitter @hotelbarpodcast and Facebook!

You can also help keep this podcast ad-free by supporting us financially on our Patreon page. We have several different levels of support available and every little bit helps!