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Anthony Appiah

Anthony Appiah is Professor of Philosophy and Law at NYU and former President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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Loyalty to Humanity

Is patriotism a morally irrelevant characteristic?

Anthony Appiah
roundtable

The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals

A roundtable with bell hooks, Cornel West, and more.

Eugene F. Rivers III, Margaret A. Burnham, Henry Louis Gates, Jr, bell hooks, Glenn C. Loury, Cornel West, Anthony Appiah

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Response: Loyalty to Humanity

My father was a Ghanaian patriot. He once published a column in our local newspaper under the headline “Is Ghana worth dying for?” and it was clear that his answer was yes....
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