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...classes that have come before it, a reminder of the promise of the large lecture class. The course, taught by University President Lawrence H. Summers and Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel with several guest appearances by the Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman, is an intellectual clash of the titans, with three world-renowned experts debating an issue of singular importance in the world today. Such a confluence of great minds and personas is a treat only available at a handful of institutions worldwide and only available in the format of a large lecture...
...only possible downside to “Globalization and Its Critics” is that there are no true conservative voices in the course, something that is, unfortunately, quite commonplace at Harvard. Fortunately, Friedman and Summers are quite conservative on the issue of globalization, so students will likely be exposed to both sides of the issue. Nevertheless we hope that other debate-style classes seek to avoid potential biases, especially when discussing a politically charged issue that would benefit from the debate format...
Sandel starred as globalization’s critic, while Friedman, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner, championed global capitalism. Even as they expressed drastically different views, Sandel and Friedman interacted with the good-natured ease of ex-college buddies. Both men graduated summa cum laude from Brandeis University...
With the caveat that “as a reporter I would never put this in the paper,” Friedman jokingly suggested that Sandel had been one of the costumed protesters who hurled objects into store windows during the 1999 anti-globalization protests in Seattle. Addressing Sandel as “Mr. Dress-up-like-a-turtle-and-throw-a-stone-through-a-McDonald’s-window,” Friedman said that “by the end of this course you will concede that the problem is not that we have too much globalization...
After delivering a trenchant rebuttal of Friedman, Sandel set his sights on Summers, who was a prominent advocate for global integration as chief economist at the World Bank and later as Secretary of the Treasury. Sandel mercilessly mocked Summers’ now-famous aphorism: “In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car.” Friedman has cited Summers’ quotation in four separate Times columns over the last two years...