With Friends Like These....
Novelist Jack Engelhard defends Larry Summers in
this opinion piece in "Chronwatch," a conservative website devoted largely to monitoring the
San Francisco Chronicle.
(I know—weird.)
Key quote: "Lawrence Summers, Harvard’s president, is on the ropes for remarks taken to be anti-feminist. Foaming-at-the-mouth feminists want his scalp and members of his faculty want his blood (libel). His real trouble began when, some time ago, he mentioned anti-Semitism, that it is real, and that it is all over the place. He’s been a marked man ever since..."
He's been a marked man ever since? Surely this is a bit much.
One of the interesting challenges Summers faces is that many of his defenders outside the walls of Harvard Yard are people he ordinarily would have no patience for—and who are even more divisive than Summers himself....
