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...stage of Sanders Theater morphed into an ideological wrestling ring yesterday afternoon as University President Lawrence H. Summers, Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, and New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman sparred in round one of their much-anticipated core class on globalization...
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...
...addition to his MBA from HBS, Hubbard also holds a degree from HLS. He replaces Stephen Friedman, who resigned from the post last month...