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Boasting an enrollment of 372 students, Social Analysis 78, “Globalization and its Critics,” taught by Summers and Bass Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel, is second in size only to the perennial top dog, Social Analysis 10, “Introduction to Economics.” Ec 10 enrolled 630 students this semester, according to figures released by the Office of the Registrar yesterday...
...latest course to burst onto the Sanders stage, is, like many of the 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...
...balance, it seems clear that classes like Social Analysis 78 that take full advantage of the potential of large, debate-style lectures are, contrary to popular opinion, very positive experiences. We hope that other star professors follow the lead of Summers, Sandel and Friedman and step out of the highest rooms of the ivory tower and into the intellectual forum of Sanders...
...outdone, Sandel turned to Summers and said, “I’m not against private property. Now may I have my pen back...
After noting that at least one person—a retired Georgetown University sociologist named Norman Birnbaum—has indeed washed a rental car, Sandel argued that Summers’ adage is a “normative claim thinly disguised.” Summers mistakenly assumes that all people act only in their own self-interest, Sandel said...