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Truth Over Tribe: An Interview with Cornel West & Robert George | 3.15.25

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🗓️ 15 March 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Progressive scholar Cornel West and conservative philosopher Robert George discuss their book "Truth Matters," sharing insights on fostering unity, fruitful disagreement, and trust across partisan lines in a polarized America. Get the facts first on Morning Wire

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0:00.0

Despite a divided media landscape, most Americans say they're ready to be united.

0:08.0

In today's episode, we speak to the conservative and progressive co-authors of the new book, Truth Matters,

0:15.0

Cornell West and Robert George, about what it takes to maintain relationships across partisan divides

0:20.0

and where the two parties

0:21.5

should go from here. I'm Georgia Howe with Daily Wire, editor-in-chief John Bickley. It's Saturday,

0:27.8

March 15th, and this is an extra edition of Morning Wire. Joining us now to discuss their new book and to comment on the current state of the parties is scholar, Democratic presidential candidate and self-professed progressive Cornell West and current Princeton professor and conservative political philosopher Robert P. George.

0:52.1

Cornell and Robert, thank you both for coming on. Absolutely. Thank you so very much for having us. Yeah, thank you. George. Cornell and Robert, thank you both for coming on.

0:54.8

Absolutely.

0:55.7

Thank you so very much for having us.

0:57.3

Yeah, thank you, Georgia.

0:59.2

So first off, I'd like to hear an overview of your book

1:02.2

before we get into some of your perspectives on some current things.

1:05.2

Robert, let's start with you.

1:07.1

The title says what the book is about.

1:08.8

The title of the book is Truth Matters, a dialogue on fruitful disagreement in an age of division.

1:15.8

So Brother Cornell and I are both dedicated. It's our vocation to get at the truth of things, to try to get in touch with reality.

1:24.0

At the same time, we recognize that we, like every other member of the human family, is fallible.

1:30.6

We get things wrong.

1:32.5

We never know the truth perfectly.

1:35.1

We never know it fully.

1:37.1

Nevertheless, it's our calling, as professors, but it's also the calling of every member of the human family to try to get at the truth of things,

1:46.0

not to live in error, not to live with lies, not to live with falsehoods, but to try to get the

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