As readers of this blog will know, the way conservative commentators rush to portray the ouster of Larry Summers as another example of political correctness run amok makes me want to stab myself in the neck with a jagged shard of glass. But that would only give those folks satisfaction.

So, in this op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, I tried to channel my frustration in a more constructive mode.

Here’s the nut graf:

“The real lesson of Summers’ failure at Harvard is very different… Summers was ousted not because of a clash of conservative versus liberal ideologies. After all, Summers was Bill Clinton’s former Treasury secretary. He is a liberal. The real problem was that Harvard’s faculty rejected the encroachment of Washington politics.”

If you like that, do check out the rest….