Tag: Harvard
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“I think the answer to bad speech is different speech. The answer to bad speech is not shutting down speech.” Larry Summers
“I worry very much that if our leading academic institutions become places that prize comfort over truth—that prize the pursuit of mutual understanding over the pursuit of better and more accurate understanding—then a great deal will be lost.” Larry Summers [Weekly Standard interview] WATCH INTERVIEW WITH FORMER HARVARD PRESIDENT LARRY SUMMERS ON THE STATE OF…
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Books I’ve Known And Loved
This one gets some people mad. Not me. I love a writer who dares you to think in new ways. Every page of this book offers something to ponder deeply. A lot of it feels true and just a bit sad. I think I have more hope in Americans than Allan Bloom did but his…