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February 2, 2024

The Other Harvard President Who Was Forced to Resign

The road from Larry Summers to Claudine Gay was paved by anti-Semitism.

In 2006, Harvard’s faculty passed a no-confidence motion, leading its then-president Larry Summers to step down. Summers had found himself in trouble after violating various tenets of political correctness. Ruth R. Wisse, then a professor at the school, recalls that Summers, in addition to his primary transgressions, had also given a speech condemning the movement to boycott Israel. Revisiting the controversy in light of Havard’s more recent troubles, she writes:

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