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...kind of hypothetical rave-ometer (which, come to think of it, is kind of a Whiteheadian idea), but after two novels--The Intuitionist and John Henry Days--he has been awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant, praised by John Updike and Jonathan Franzen and compared (by this magazine) to Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison. So it's a bit of a surprise to find that his third novel, Apex Hides the Hurt (Doubleday), is a rather modest affair, slender and conceptual in nature. Wouldn't this be the moment, tactically speaking, to kick out the jams with a massive, world-electrifying...
...university president should lack the good sense and good taste that would allow him to say “economists are smarter than political scientists, and political scientists are smarter than sociologists” as Summers allegedly did to Cowles Professor of Anthropology Peter T. Ellison, the former dean of GSAS. It didn’t help that Summers, an economist, was concurrently trying to shift funding from a sociology program to the Kennedy School. Such virulent disciplinary biases are unacceptable. The next president of Harvard should work from the top to promote vibrant intellectual exchange by creating an environment...
...despite the potentially explosive nature of the issue, Ellison did not go public with his grievances until last week, in an interview with the Boston Globe. Gordon said Ellison initially “wanted to give the president a chance to fix things...
After being briefed by Ellison, a member of the Caucus—Classics Department Chair Richard F. Thomas—asked Summers at the April 12 Faculty meeting whether the president had “been contemplating or conducting even preliminary discussions” about shifting control of Ph.D. programs...
...evidence and changing his mind just as quickly if the evidence turned against him. Summers’ confidence in his own judgments, barring counterarguments he deemed suitable, got him into trouble often. After resigning due to differences with Summers, former Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Dean Peter T. Ellison recalled a time when Summers stated that economists were smarter than political scientists and sociologists. More seriously, Faculty members complained that Summers played favorites with funding and the tenure process, bestowing grants and professorships on those whose fields he deemed worthy. In general, it has been individuals from these favored...