Nothing on his blog about Caroline Hoxby's departure to Stanford. Not a topic worthy of discussion?
 

Will Professor Mankiw be discussing the breakthrough Harvard study that shows how subconsciouis bias leads to inferior health care for African Americans? It's in today's front page in the Globe. It appears that some people at Harvard are still doing research on race relations.
 

But the wicked woman when she had reached home went in front of the glass and asked,


"Looking-glass, looking-glass, on the wall,
Who in this land is the fairest of all?"
And it answered as before,

"Oh, queen, thou art fairest of all I see,
But over the hills, where the seven dwarfs dwell,
Snow White is still alive and well,
And none is so fair as she."
When she heard that, all her blood rushed to her heart with fear, for she saw plainly that little Snow White was again alive.

"But now," she said, "I will think of something that shall really put an end to you." And by the help of witchcraft, which she understood, she made a poisonous comb. Then she disguised herself and took the shape of another old woman.

So she went over the seven mountains to the seven dwarfs, knocked at the door, and cried, "Good things to sell, cheap, cheap."

Little Snow White looked out and said, "Go away, I cannot let anyone come in."

"I suppose you can look," said the old woman, and pulled the poisonous comb out and held it up.
 

Is 4:21 implying that no one at Harvard, especially in the economics department, is doing research on race relations? Much of the work of Roland Fryer is concerned with questions of race, sometimes with surprising conclusions. He is principal investigator of the "American Inequality Lab." (My sense is that the economics department has worked hard to keep him from taking many offers elsewhere!)
http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~rfryer/people.cgi
 

Oh no, people doing research on race relations are quite OK. Particularly if they prove that disadvantaged groups are responsible for their own misfortunes.
 

and perhaps even better if they legitimize hypotheses about racial inferiority and talk about their parents and family as damaged goods...

Professor Hoxby could teach a thing or two to aspiring academic stars about the colors in the Harvard rainbow.
 

Summers was a big fan of Fryer. No doubt impressed by his intellect and perhaps intrigued by his hypotheses about the reasons for racial inequality. Maybe they fit with his own theories on the role of genetics in explaining human behavior. Too bad there's isn't also an accomplished woman on the econ faculty doing research to demonstrate that women's inferior status at Harvard is caused by their genes.
 

THOU SHALT HONOUR THY FATHER AND THY MOTHER

What are the long term consequences for the minds of those who exploited their parents' weaknesses? For those who rise at the expense of their communities and people?

Do they one day understand that the rules that allow them to rise and receive recognition while they turn against their parents and their people are the same rules that estranged their forebearers from their families and had them shipped in shackles to serve those who bought their bodies after they had been emptied of their souls?
 

Okay, 8:28, let's tone it down a bit, shall we? You have a way of hijacking these threads to discuss your feelings about race at Harvard, and to a certain extent that's fine, but not when it becomes an obsession.

As a literary matter, your technique of framing everything as a question gets old fast. If you have an opinion, come out and say so. Don't hide behind questions you obviously believe are rhetorical. It's a way of suggesting something without actually taking responsibility for it.

To another point—anyone who feels so strongly and consistently about something really ought to start his/her own blog.

WILL THE PERSON WHO CONSISTENTLY ASKS RHETORICAL QUESTIONS IMPLYING THAT EVERY ASPECT OF HARVARD IS RACIST HAVE THE COURAGE TO START HIS OWN BLOG TO DISCUSS THE ISSUE?
 

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Enough, Anon.
 

Cab Driver: "This shitty enough for ya?"

Prince Akeem: "Yes, this will be fine."