Kwame Anthony Appiah receives Gittler Prize from Brandeis

Kwame Anthony Appiah received Brandeis Universitys first Joseph B. and Toby Gittler Prize on Oct. 27. Appiah is the Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy and the University Center for Human Values at Princeton University. Hes a Ghanaian philosopher, cultural theorist and novelist.

The $25,000 prize, the legacy of Professor Joseph B. Gittler, is the first and one of the largest academic prizes awarded to a U.S. or international scholar for outstanding and lasting contributions to racial, ethnic and/or religious relations. The prize also honors Gittlers mother, Toby Gittler.

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[maureenOWW]

He's completely (and quite obviously) wrong. Charlemagnes empire at it's height was 1.2 million square kilometres. The 48 continental united states (not including alaska etc) are over 8 million square kilometres. That's almost SEVEN times the size. Even if he had conquered all of europe up the the borders of russia he would still only be halfway to the size of the US.

So this 'brilliant' man has no actual grasp of basic things like the size of countries, or how to check 'facts'.

What a moron.

[maureenOWW]

How can you give this person an award?

In his book review entitled 'How Muslims Made Europe' he states the following:

'Charlemagne's rule included at its high point most of France, Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, the west of Germany, Italy as far south as Rome, a strip in the north of Spain, and parts of Hungary and the Balkans. At nearly three and a half million square miles, it was larger than the continental United States.' Do I have to point out how wrong these statistics are?