Word: dearaujo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...DeAraujo: And he was criticized overtly—and he was wrong...
McCarthy: Are you [Douthat and DeAraujo] suggesting then that if you are at the vanguard of your craft, you are a public intellectual with a wide audience and that because of that you should toe the line and stay mainstream and say exactly what Middle America would want to hear? You know, I said at the beginning of the year at a rally that we should think before we bomb and that got me put as number 32 on Lynne Cheney’s list of subversive academics. The fact of the matter is that there are lots of people...
...DeAraujo: First of all, I don’t sympathize with that point of view. Obviously I’m waiting for the day when there’s a Latino University professor. We should be able to judge as members of the Harvard community. People outside that community see Harvard as an example, as an institution that leads, and with that in mind we can make decisions. And maybe I’m buying into the Globe article where they tried to link him with Sharpton, but that is not who Professor West is, and you can?...
...DeAraujo: I think in defense of President Summers, he never made any of his views of the way Cornel West was comporting himself public. One of the underlying factors here is that all of us have indirectly gotten our information from the Boston Globe. It’s been framed in a very political way by the Boston Globe which, frankly, as a Boston native I know has a very poor relation with Harvard University. So President Summers hasn’t made any of these public comments. We actually don’t know what went...
...DeAraujo: I think you can’t completely fault Summers. Frankly, a lot of professors act like prima donnas, and I think they are the ones with thin skin and fragile egos. Rudenstine deferred a lot to the faculty—that is the way he did stuff. This way isn’t wrong, however. I don’t think we can just chalk this up as a character flaw...