While Larry Sumers Is Off at Davos... ...and Bill Kirby twists in the wind....

Stanford has posted dozens of lectures, interviews, speeches, performances and more on iTunes.

And they're all free....

It's this kind of exciting initiative that shows why the chaos at Harvard matters: It's not just a getting of what isn't happening at Harvard, but what is happening at other universities. I'll bet that no one at Harvard has even considered such a move. And with a new dean in the works, I'd say that Harvard—if it even were able to do such a thing—is at least a year behind Stanford.

Which makes me repeat my suggestion to the Harvard community: If you don't stand and fight, the Summers presidency—a time of scandal and controversy, anger and frustration—may prove to be the years during which Harvard loses its foremost spot in American education.

Welcome to the new world, Harvard. There's no room for complacency....  ¶ 10:12 AM