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Summers quickly became a frequent whipping post for right-leaning writers like the Wall Street Journal’s Paul A. Gigot, who was perhaps Summers?? most caustic critic. While his columns mostly blasted Summers?? policy stances, Gigot also skewered Summers for his perceived arrogance. “Larry Summers is to modesty what Madonna is to chastity,” Gigot wrote...
Gigot’s editorial board acknowledged that this adulatory review of Summers?? speech might come as a surprise to some readers. “When Larry Summers turns to the Wall Street Journal’s editorial pages, we suspect he doesn’t expect to find a whole lot of praise,” the paper wrote...
Back on campus, conservative-leaning faculty members viewed Summers?? 2001 appointment as University president with guarded optimism. “Almost anyone would have been better than [Summers?? predecessor Neil L.] Rudenstine,” says Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, the Kenan professor of government...
Another prominent conservative faculty member, Winthrop Professor of History Stephan A. Thernstrom, says he was “favorably surprised” by Summers?? early support for bringing the Reserve Officer Training Corps back to Harvard—three decades after the military program had been barred from campus during the Vietnam...
...Jeff Jacoby, a conservative columnist at the Boston Globe, rallied to Summers?? defense during the University president’s spat with Cornel R. West ’74. (Summers had criticized West, then a star member of the school’s Afro-American studies team, for devoting too much time toward non-academic pursuits, including several prominent left-wing political causes.) And Jacoby commended the University president for his opposition to the Israel divestment movement, which Summers suggested was “anti-Semitic in effect if not in intent...