  urlLink Christopher Lydon Interviews... : : "To celebrate Emerson's 200th birthday, I am gathering observations for a long public radio conversation on The American Plato and the 'God for Bloggers,' who Harold Bloom says is 'closer to us than ever. ' Cornel West was high on my list, and Monday afternoon we stretched out in his office at Princeton. Emerson was the American Socrates, the American Hamlet and the American Isaiah, said West warming up. And a modern reading of Emerson keeps alive those prophetic, Shakespearean and Socratic dimensions in American life. " 
