Larry Summers has graduated from Re-education Camp and now teaches at it. He appeared yesterday as guest lecturer at the Harvard course on “Morality and Taboo.” The Harvard Crimson reports today in “Summers Called on as ‘Taboo’ Expert:”
Readdressing the most explosive controversy of his tenure as University president, Lawrence H. Summers said yesterday that his January 2005 speech on women in science was, “in retrospect, an act of spectacular imprudence.”
He appeared at the final meeting of “Morality and Taboo,” a course inspired by the furor over Summers’ presidency that led to his resignation last year. The class has examined why some concepts and ideas are considered improper in certain public arenas.
“I can’t for the life of me figure out why anything in my past could cause me to be invited to an event like this,” Summers quipped as he was introduced by the course’s two professors, Johnstone Professor of Psychology Steven Pinker and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz.
“Well, maybe that was the problem,” Dershowitz quickly replied. . .
[Summers] said that his position at the University’s helm should have kept him from acting as an “intellectual provocateur.”
Even Mr. Liu was not this good a student. And Danny Devito would have been a better choice of lecturer. Or David Broder.