The New Republic

Asking Hillary to head the State Department might create some headaches for Obama, but could help him in at least one extremely important way: by giving him cover to appoint Larry Summers as Treasury Secretary. READ MORE >>

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Yes, I actually do know who you are. Basically nothings. Oh, and at least one of you is crackers.If there is one indispensable person who should be presiding over the disentanglement of of our economic shipwreck it is Larry Summers. And also presiding over the reconstruction of our financial institutions with an emphasis on sound investment, transparency, public need, democratic ethos, far-reaching insight and simple  downright honesty. Frankly, Summers is among the two or three most brilliant people I know. READ MORE >>

I forgot to report that, at Harvard's commencement exercises on Thursday, as Larry Summers rose for his brilliantly merited honorary degree, the students rose as one--not just those from the College but from the graduate schools as well--to cheer him, to cheer him lustily, to cheer him authentically. They knew he was on their side. He wanted tough intellectual standards for them ... and, alas, for the faculty of arts and sciences. That's where his trouble started. READ MORE >>

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It's been a year since Harvard President Larry Summers uttered some unfortunate speculations about why so few women hold elite professorships in the sciences. During Summers's speech, a biologist, overwhelmed by the injustice of it all, nearly collapsed with what George F. Will unkindly described as the vapors. Since that odd January day, Summers has been rebuked with a faculty no-confidence vote, untold talk-show hosts have weighed in, and 936 stories about the controversy have appeared in newspapers and magazines (according to LexisNexis). READ MORE >>