While Harvard Fights...
First it was Columbia.
Now NYU has announced that it too is the recipient of a $200 million gift.....
In my talk on Harvard last week at the Union Club, I suggested some alternatives to the left-wing faculty "coup" theory to explain Larry Summers' exit. One of them was that, however you felt about the merits of Larry Summers' arguments, Harvard was suffering from "controversy fatigue"—from Cornel West to anti-Semitism to women-in-science to Andrei Shleifer, it was just one thing after another—and that all the controversy was hurting fundraising.
Funny, isn't it? A former secretary of the treasury who's actually
bad for fundraising. Now, that takes some effort.
