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...influence has not taken Summers far enough. Indeed, if last month’s uproar is to suggest anything about the legacy of his days at the Treasury, it’s that Washington-trained diplomacy just won’t cut it for the world of liberal academia??an institution whose structure differs fundamentally from that of government...
It’s no secret that the world of academia??Harvard included—has a decidedly leftward lean. Not even liberals deny this. But what they do often deny is that this overbearing bias is a problem that needs to be addressed. The fact that it is not even seen as a serious concern is indicative of just how deep and institutionalized this political imbalance has become. Things need to change. Bias should be kept to a healthy minimum in the classroom, and schools need to make a much more serious effort to recruit faculty that...
...talk, Norwood presented research culled from an upcoming book on American academia??s response to the rise of Nazism. Norwood claimed that Harvard faculty, student leaders and top administrators ignored news reports of systematic persecution in Nazi Germany, instead tacitly condoning anti-Semitic viewpoints that were “pervasive” in American society at the time...
...Wall Street Journal, Peretz Professor of Yiddish Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature Ruth R. Wisse, a Bush contributor, criticized the “scandalous uniformity” of academia??s “liberal-left hegemony.” Wisse wrote that some conservatives find this political environment to be “repressive...
This afternoon, new graduates of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government will be sent into their public-service careers with guidance from one of academia??s leading global thinkers...