I like thinking summer right now.

Actually Larry Summers. I don’t agree with every word, but Ruth Marcus is worth reading today on the firestorm. Here’s some:

The Summers storm might have been easy to forecast. But it says less, in the end, about the Harvard president than it does about the unwillingness of the modern academy to tolerate the kind of freewheeling inquiry that academics and intellectuals above all ought to prize rather than revile.