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November 24, 2015

Lawrence Summers, the Crisis of the Universities, and Israel

The Harvard president violated the three sacred doctrines of campus leftism.

The headlines about absurd protests and pseudo-scandals on American campuses, and the often craven responses to them by college administrators, give the sense that academia is imploding. An adumbration of this latest crisis can be found in the end of Lawrence Summers’ tenure as president of Harvard in 2006. Summers found himself in hot water because he transgressed taboos about race and gender and also, writes Edward Alexander, about Israel:

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