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Princeton academic Cornel West attended the dedication of the Martin Luther King Jr. memorial in Washington on Sunday, and then nipped over to the Supreme Court, where he joined 18 other members of “Occupy Wall Street” subsidiary “October 2011 / Stop the Machine” in getting arrested when they refused to obey police orders to clear the area. West is a fitfully amusing example of self-righteous academic incoherence, who can be counted on to produce memorable sound bites. He recently told black presidential candidate Herman Cain to “get off the symbolic crack pipe” because Cain is insufficiently cowed by the menace...

This is What Democracy Looks Like? Stop! Stop the Machine! Create a New World! Who Will Be There? If you are planning, or even just thinking about, attending the Stop the Machine! Create a New World! Concert/Rally/Protest on October 6th, 2011 then you should better know who it is that you are getting involved with. You may have previously heard the idiom Politics make Strange Bedfellows, meaning that people who would normally dislike and avoid one another will work together if they think it is politically useful to do so. If that is really all that is going on here...