Academic Hysterics
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Thursday, January 27, 2005
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Even though much ink has already been spilled on the subject of the Harry Summers flap, George Will manages to cut to the quick with a few, choice words:
Forgive Larry Summers. He did not know where he was.
Addressing a conference on the supposedly insufficient numbers of women in tenured positions in university science departments, he suggested that perhaps part of the explanation might be innate — genetically based — gender differences in cognition. He thought he was speaking in a place that encourages uncircumscribed intellectual explorations. He was not. He was on a university campus.
Ouch.
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George Will has an excellent point about the Harvard flap.
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Nah. That wasn’t it. It was reverse-Voltaire: “I may agree with what you say but I deny your right to say itâ€Â. I mean, after all, he’s a mere man.
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The Free Flow of Ideas?
Apropos of a comment from today’s George Will column comes the following from the CSM: Harvard flap prompts query: How free is campus speech?Dr. Summers’s comments – which he said were intended to provoke discussion about why women were underreprese…
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