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Sunday, March 06, 2024
Sneering Summers Supporters?
Coincidentally, a self-described Summers' supporter, undergraduate Kelly Shue, has written this piece for the Harvard Independent arguing that Summers' supporters have grown overconfident. It's considerably more thoughtful than Mansfield's article.
Shue's conclusion: "As supporters of Larry Summers, we should at least recognize that the other side has a credible argument. Summers's critics are more sensitive to the harms of prejudice [than are his defenders]. Before we dismiss them as irrational and over-emotional, we need to consider that such critics may actually be the pragmatists. They alone are considering the full consequences of free academic inquiry into innate gender differences. "
An interesting, and open-minded, point.
Shue's conclusion: "As supporters of Larry Summers, we should at least recognize that the other side has a credible argument. Summers's critics are more sensitive to the harms of prejudice [than are his defenders]. Before we dismiss them as irrational and over-emotional, we need to consider that such critics may actually be the pragmatists. They alone are considering the full consequences of free academic inquiry into innate gender differences. "
An interesting, and open-minded, point.