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...said so explicitly, but they’re inching up to it...If Dershowitz and Glaeser believe [this], then they have an obligation to make their case explicitly, with all the seriousness it merits. Otherwise, they should stop hinting.”On February 27, Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam pondered the role of anti-Semitism in Summers’ resignation in a piece titled “Summers, Harvard, and Israel.” He asked if “support for or opposition to Israel [was] the new fault line dividing the Harvard faculty.”Alan...
...Other pundits centered their explanations on Summers’ management style. Long-time Summers critic Richard Bradley, author of “Harvard Rules,” wrote that Summers’ “Washington-style politics” sealed his fate. Financial Times columnist Lucy Kellaway painted a memorable picture of the management landscape of a successful, large university like Harvard. “Universities,” she wrote, “function adequately enough when everyone is left to their own devices. Incompetent management seems not to matter, the ship goes on sailing. The trouble comes...
...columnist called Harvard students too careerist to care about Summers’ ouster. We do care. But our faith in the Faculty’s reasons for throwing Summers out has, so far, muted any protest. Unless Faculty members speak up soon, that faith will be put sorely to the test...
...suspicion landed in Monday’s Boston Globe, where columnist Alex Beam quoted professor Ruth R. Wisse as asking, “Was anti-Semitism the driving engine of this coup...
Apparently New York Times columnists don’t have to make sense. The claim that Harvard faculty have abandoned the Revolution has been making the rounds of the right-wing press for several years now. A couple of years ago, I actually received an e-mail from a correspondent in the Midwest asking me if it was true, as a local columnist claimed, that Harvard had replaced its course on the Revolution with courses on midwifery and quilting. As the author of a rather well-known book on an 18th-century midwife, I knew when I had been zinged...