The Closing of the American Mind, at Harvard

Harvard President Lawrence Summers is resigning.  In all fairness, there were a lot of local Harvard issues involved in his demise, and there may well have been good reasons why he should go.  What is fairly clear is that these reasons had little to do with his going.  What brought Summers to national notoriety, and encouraged the faculty to move against him, was a speech he gave on the biological differences between men and women.  It was intellectual heresy, more than anything else, that brought Summers down.  He piously stated that "Harvard's greatest days are in the future."  I would put it differently.  Harvard is an institution with a great future behind it. I recently posted a column of mine from the American News on this speech.  You can find it here in our archives.