Interesting re: Mearsheimer! IMO, Dershowitz has single-handedly damaged Harvard's reputation over the years perhaps as much as any other professor in recent history at Harvard. Not to say that he hasn't done any good writing or research in his time, but his unnecessary, and frequently downright quixotic in their spuriousness, ad hominem attacks on fellow professors and others have left him with very little credibility in my opinion. The KSG would be far better served by a rebuttal by any of dozens of other Harvard professors.
 

Here's Jim Sleeper's take on the Summers vs Harvard faculty debate (as it appeared on CBS.com):
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It’s time someone told them: Guys, it’s over. Not conservatism, which can be better than this, and not criticism of liberals and the left, who often deserve it; what's over is your endless baiting of liberals.

(The American Prospect) This column was written by Jim Sleeper.

They’re beginning to look like the old Saturday-morning cartoon character Wile E. Coyote, running in hot pursuit of the Road Runner, zooming right off a cliff and continuing to run through thin air – until he takes a look around, gulps, and plummets straight down.

Well, the conservative-movement pundits hot in pursuit of liberal-faculty subversion on the nation’s campuses aren’t gulping just yet. After losing their battle to keep Lawrence Summers president of Harvard by blaming his travails on politically correct professors, they’ve rushed on to blame “diversity” liberals for enrolling an ex-Taliban spokesman as a special student at Yale.

But the air in which cable blowhards Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly, Wall Street Journal online columnist John Fund, The Boston Globe's Cathy Young, and more than a few others are running and shouting, “Liberals, liberals, liberals!” is becoming as thin as their accusations, and no wonder: The ground under their feet … isn’t there. In rushing to Yale after Harvard they might as well be threatening to bring regime change to Iran after doing so well in Iraq.

Harvard isn’t Iraq, of course, although a Journal editorial lamenting Summers’s demise did liken its “left-wing” faculty to a people’s congress in Pyongyang. You’d never know from this high-capitalist frothing that the real Harvard Corporation – which, unlike the faculty, is as high and capitalist as the U.S. Treasury that corporation member Robert Rubin and then Summers once ran – showed the latter the door partly because, among other indiscretions, he’d let Harvard defend and even pay for his economics department friends’ extralegal investment antics abroad.

Even people like me who rather liked Summers’s jabs at campus progressive good-think sensed something way off in his governance. He seems not to have a civic-republican bone in his body, and as revelations mounted in Institutional Investor and economicprincipals.com, the barking trailed off.