Alan Dershowitz: Coup Obsessed
The HLS professor continues his portrayal of Summers' resignation as an "
academic coup d'etat by hard-left censors" in the Sunday Times of London.
Honestly, does Alan Dershowitz truly believe that free speech and civil intellectual debate were thriving under Larry Summers? If so, I recommend him to the chapter in
Harvard Rules, "
Silent Campus," in which I discuss the chilling effect of the Summers' presidency, the way dissent—or even the liberal exchange of ideas— at Harvard was being shut off like lights in a late-night dormitory.
But Dershowitz is hardly consistent on the issue of censorship and free speech; he has refused even to consider the possibility that President Summers' broad attack on perceived anti-Semitism at Harvard might have made some faculty (particularly junior faculty) more hesitant to speak their minds.....
