I call on the American people to hold a formal vote of no confidence in

the Harvard faculty. After this vote has been held (and you know which way

it will go), I call on Harvard’s faculty to resign.

Actually, I think the vote of no confidence in Lawrence Summers is a

wonderful thing. Harvard continues to discredit itself with the American

public. The faculty is trapped. If Summers resigns, this extraordinary

example of political correctness will come back to haunt Harvard, and the

entire academy, for years. But if Summers hangs on, the faculty itself

will have been humiliated–checked by the very fact of public

scrutiny. Either way, Harvard is tearing itself apart. So long as the

public simply writes of the academy, the mice can play. But the intense

public scrutiny in this case puts the captains of political correctness

into a no-win situation. Like the closely watched Susan Estrich fiasco,

this battle is doing lasting damage to the cultural left. As they say,

sunlight is the best disinfectant.