Harvard as a Conservative Institution
It's an idea I've been pushing for some time...against long-held stereotypes of Harvard as a place filled with Massachusetts liberals. Writing to the letters section of the NYT Book Review, Herbert Gans makes a similar point. Since I still can't hyperlink, I'll just quote:
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To the Editor:
If Michael Hirsch, in his review of two books about globalization (March 5), can describe Jeff Faux as the founder of a ''labor-oriented research group,'' shouldn't Jeffry Frieden be identified as a professor at a business-oriented university? After all, Harvard, where Frieden is (in Hirsch's words) a ''political economist who specializes in international finance,'' has a business school but no labor school, and labor economists are represented sparsely on its economics and business school faculties.
HERBERT J. GANS
Manhattan
The writer is a professor of sociology at Columbia.>>
