This Summers thing is huge. It’s becoming impossible for him to govern

Harvard, but equally impossible to fire him for fear of setting the

ultimate public example of political correctness. Today’s front page WaPo story is disturbing. It says that even Summers’s agree that he made a

“major blunder” by even raising the questions he did. That is not how to

defend free exchange in the academy. I said the other day that Summers’

remarks on affirmative action were what really set his opponents in

motion. Now that’s confirmed on the op-ed page of today’s Post by Eugene Robinson. I still say the Summers affair is going well. It has put

political correctness in the academy back on the front pages. Every day,

it proves that even raising reasonable questions about un-pc subjects is

taboo in the academy. And if Summers can’t break the taboos, you can

imagine how impossible it is for a grad student, or an untenured faculty

member to do it.