IF ONLY LARRY SUMMERS HAD HAD THE GUTS TO RESIGN!! That--or so thinks the aggrieved academic who is proprietor of this place--would have been the honorable and effective response once the p.c. battalions at Harvard descended upon him. Instead, he stayed and tried to placate. The consequences, as detailed here by Heather MacDonald, are wasteful both of Harvard's wealth and its reputation. An earlier Extension 720 conversation with MacDonald--one of our favorite social observers--can be heard here.