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...purge,” a “lynching,” and a “coup d’etat.” In some circles, Summers has been crowned a “martyr,” the victim of rampant “political correctness?? among a faculty comprised of left-wing nut-jobs. Those who defend Summers often speak in the language of apocalypse, as if Harvard will not survive without Larry Summers at the helm...
...press with concerns that are really not political but intellectual, about no less than the nature of university governance and diversity. Those professors who have rallied to Summers’ side have quickly tried to make it a political debate, using the weary charge of “political correctness?? and conventionally political tactics like petitions and—as I suspect will be shown by this afternoon’s meeting—“get out the vote” drives. If this conversation takes place on such political terms, Summers will have...
...conservative Republican who disagrees politically with Summers on many issues. Yet I come to his defense here as he is assaulted by advocates of “political correctness??—a political philosophy embraced by his very own liberal democrat establishment—perhaps even...
...dismissal of all the criticisms that have been lumped into the category of the “politically correct” ends conversation before it can begin. Such dismissals pose at least as strong a threat to free speech on campus as so-called “political correctness?? itself...
It’s a disturbing finding, and as Harvard students—walking exemplars of egalitarian political correctness??it is tempting to write it off as a social dynamic exclusive to Duke. But before we accuse the Blue Devils of being trapped in a different era, perhaps we ought to examine the environment on our own campus...