Academic Hysterics
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James Joyner | Thursday, January 27, 2005 |
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.
About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia with his wife and infant daughter.
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Nah. That wasn't it. It was reverse-Voltaire: âI may agree with what you say but I deny your right to say itâ. I mean, after all, he's a mere man.
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