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...rule, sticklers for “exquisite sensitivity to minority issues.” In 1988, Yiddish literature professor Ruth R. Wisse described the Palestinians as “people who breed and bleed and advertise their misery.” In 1994, the late psychology professor Richard J. Herrnstein argued in “The Bell Curve” that African-Americans and Hispanics are inherently less intelligent than whites. In 2001, government professor Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 speculated that the presence of black students was the cause of grade inflation at Harvard...
...Whitehead Professor of Government Dennis F. Thompson writes in an e-mail. “As president, he actually encouraged controversy. His annual letters (and many of his speeches) boldly challenged many powerful constituencies of the university.”In fact, Harvard psychologist Richard J. Herrnstein published a 1971 article in The Atlantic Monthly that argued that differences in mental ability were largely inherited and partly attributable to income inequalities. Despite the storm of criticism that Herrnstein received, Bok stood by him, condemning the attacks at a faculty meeting and re-affirming that the First Amendment was and should...
...struggle," Pierce Professor of Psychology Richard J. Herrnstein said of the recruiting effort among senior faculty members. "The older the Core gets, the more routine it becomes. I think it will get harder and harder," said Herrnstein, who chairs the Core's Social Analysis subcommittee...
Then, in the 1970s, science began to show that the nurture-only view was indeed too simplistic--which triggered a backlash from the left. When researchers like Richard Herrnstein and E.O. Wilson demonstrated that genes do play a significant role in human intelligence and behavior, for example, they were vilified by many of their colleagues. And just a few years ago, a conference designed to explore the genetic roots of violence had to be canceled in the face of widespread condemnation...
...word triggered an avalanche of criticism from many of their colleagues, who called their conclusions unwarranted and farfetched. And it's easy to understand why. The idea that intelligence is rooted in the genes has long been an inflammatory notion--witness the charges of racism put to Richard Herrnstein and Charles Murray, authors of The Bell Curve, their controversial study of IQ and race. Beyond that, the very concept of intelligence is slippery. It involves many qualities--some of them elusive, like creativity, others more clear-cut like the ability to solve problems. "This is a very important study," says...