Harvard’s president Larry Summers has submitted his resignation rather than continue to face the relentless hostility of the faculty. Most of the faculty, at least. He had his backers, but they were no match for the lynch mob mentality of the majority, outraged over Summers’ transgressions against their deeply held beliefs. In that, the Harvard faculty bears a considerable resemblance to the rioting mobs in the Muslim world.
Here is what Thomas Sowell has to say about the battle for control of Harvard.
Many years ago, William F. Buckley quipped that he’d rather be governed by the first 200 names in the Boston phone book than the Harvard faculty. Nothing has changed, unless for the worse.
