VERY much in the news are attempts to trim the extravagances of the First Amendment. Sometimes freedommongering betrays itself, causing the observer to assume comfortably that a sober integration of free speech in the House of Rights is more or less on its way. But the fight needs pursuit.
The season’s headliner was Harvard president Larry Summers. What he said was that he fancied that not as many women as men get on with science and engineering. Knoweth not the fury of liberal faculties, the man who makes judgments that are hostile to truly important orthodoxies, in this case, that there is no difference between men and women.
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