Academic Hysterics
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.
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.