No, Summers should not be teaching at Harvard

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He's certainly a brilliant economist. But I have s feeling Harvard will be able to recruit someone to cover his teaching load.

Well his recommendations created the oligarchs in Russian during their transition from central planning to capitalism which has been widely panned

And he also held the Obama admin back from injected more monetary supply into the system in 2007/08 which lead to the long and slow last climb out of the financial crisis (whereas Trump injected the $$ during COvID and the economy remained strong).

Putting aside his relationship with Epstein and that he said that women were less intellectually capable than men, I’d argue he should have been let go for his bad economic judgement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Despite this reporting by the Harvard newspaper he still showed up to teach. What a tool. How embarrassing. How outrageous kids are paying for this.

He showed up to class Tuesday and gave the statement that was posted to X by a student. He resigned Wednesday.

Class meets again this morning and he will not be there. His co-teacher Dr. Lawrence will teach the class.

My son is in the class. I only know what he tells me, which isn’t much. He’s enjoyed the course, they’ve had some awesome guests including Sam Altman, Oren Cass, Jake Sullivan. Tony Blair was supposed to guest lecture in the coming weeks; not sure if that will happen.

This is the education you get at Harvard: the former university president is trading dating advice with the ringleader of a child sex trafficker and teaching his class with ridiculous VIP "guest lecturers." What a joke. Claudine Gay may have been a deeply underwhelming intellectual and plaigirist but Summers is a hundred thousand times worse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:He's certainly a brilliant economist. But I have s feeling Harvard will be able to recruit someone to cover his teaching load.

His grand achievement was creating the 2008 Great Financial Crisis.

Since he didn't join the government until 2009, I'm curious as to how he did that.

What he did do was lowball the 2009 stimulus package, against the advice of more competent economists.

[Anonymous]

Summers just made mistakes. just because epstein hated trump doesn't make summers bad or Harvard bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Despite this reporting by the Harvard newspaper he still showed up to teach. What a tool. How embarrassing. How outrageous kids are paying for this.

He showed up to class Tuesday and gave the statement that was posted to X by a student. He resigned Wednesday.

Class meets again this morning and he will not be there. His co-teacher Dr. Lawrence will teach the class.

My son is in the class. I only know what he tells me, which isn’t much. He’s enjoyed the course, they’ve had some awesome guests including Sam Altman, Oren Cass, Jake Sullivan. Tony Blair was supposed to guest lecture in the coming weeks; not sure if that will happen.

This is the education you get at Harvard: the former university president is trading dating advice with the ringleader of a child sex trafficker and teaching his class with ridiculous VIP "guest lecturers." What a joke. Claudine Gay may have been a deeply underwhelming intellectual and plaigirist but Summers is a hundred thousand times worse.

Agree with you about the VIP guest lecturers. If not cohesively integrated into the course design, what is the point? Other than superficial gloss and Summers himself not having to teach many classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Despite this reporting by the Harvard newspaper he still showed up to teach. What a tool. How embarrassing. How outrageous kids are paying for this.

He showed up to class Tuesday and gave the statement that was posted to X by a student. He resigned Wednesday.

Class meets again this morning and he will not be there. His co-teacher Dr. Lawrence will teach the class.

My son is in the class. I only know what he tells me, which isn’t much. He’s enjoyed the course, they’ve had some awesome guests including Sam Altman, Oren Cass, Jake Sullivan. Tony Blair was supposed to guest lecture in the coming weeks; not sure if that will happen.

Such a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Why would Summers resign from that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The arrogance is just astounding. Why should our young students have to put up with this BS?

Anyone know if he is teaching next semester? I could maybe just maybe get it if he is just finishing up the last few weeks and then will be gone.

Anyone have a student in his class?

Why not? Plagiarist Gay is still a law professor. Lying Liz Warren is still a senator. Didn’t you know that progressives dislike holding their own accountable for their action?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He's been problematic forEVer. Proof that cancel culture isn't real for white men...

Tell that to Jimmy the Greek, Al Franken, Kevin Spacey, Anthony Weiner….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not let my daughter be taught by that rapist, pedophike that thinks women are second class citizens.

Yet you voted for Bill Clinton. Twice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:He's been problematic forEVer. Proof that cancel culture isn't real for white men...

Tell that to Jimmy the Greek, Al Franken, Kevin Spacey, Anthony Weiner….

Kevin Sapcey is literally making a movie

Jimmy the Greek - you literally went to someone born in 1918

Weiner was not cancelled he went to jail for 21 months (not enough time)... he was hired as a CEO of a company when he got OUT OF JAIL and then a conservative talk show hired him.

I guess our definition fo "cancelled is different"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would not let my daughter be taught by that rapist, pedophike that thinks women are second class citizens.

Yet you voted for Bill Clinton. Twice.

Nobody supported Bubba after he was found guilty of anything. You expect people to have a crystal ball.

You voted for a rapist after he was convicted in a court of law.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Despite this reporting by the Harvard newspaper he still showed up to teach. What a tool. How embarrassing. How outrageous kids are paying for this.

He showed up to class Tuesday and gave the statement that was posted to X by a student. He resigned Wednesday.

Class meets again this morning and he will not be there. His co-teacher Dr. Lawrence will teach the class.

My son is in the class. I only know what he tells me, which isn’t much. He’s enjoyed the course, they’ve had some awesome guests including Sam Altman, Oren Cass, Jake Sullivan. Tony Blair was supposed to guest lecture in the coming weeks; not sure if that will happen.

This is the education you get at Harvard: the former university president is trading dating advice with the ringleader of a child sex trafficker and teaching his class with ridiculous VIP "guest lecturers." What a joke. Claudine Gay may have been a deeply underwhelming intellectual and plaigirist but Summers is a hundred thousand times worse.

Agree with you about the VIP guest lecturers. If not cohesively integrated into the course design, what is the point? Other than superficial gloss and Summers himself not having to teach many classes.

It’s a class on Globalization and my son has really enjoyed it. Great debates, broad ideas on policy and procedure from those who have/had great influence. It’s fun to hear them debate and admit they’ve been wrong. Also when their view differed from their boss (aka the president).

Not glossing over anything having to do with Summers but the course itself has been worthwhile.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/us/larry-summers-harvard-epstein.html

Lawrence Summers to Stop Teaching at Harvard While It Investigates His Epstein Ties
The former Harvard president had previously stepped down from other positions following revelations about his longtime connections to Jeffrey Epstein.

Good.

yes good. But pleae do not forget he showed up this week to teach the class and subjected his students to some self serving "i am sorry" drivel. See the ridiculpous video. These are young college students. Not much older than the victims. Just complete insane arrogance and an embarasment to Harvard it even got this far.

Harvard really really has jumped the shark ....

Donald Trump is on video bragging about grabbing women's pu**ies yet he's still allowed near women, and 74 million Americans voted for him...so why the double standard?

you know a LOT of people go speeding on 95, only a few get ticketed. do you think its a defense to tell the policeman that other people were speeding as well? that is no defense- some people get caught and pay a price and some dont, but just b/c someone gets away with something doesnt mean everyone gets to be immune and different professions have different standards and I'd think a professor in contact with young people shouldn't be friends with a predator who preys on young people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:He's certainly a brilliant economist. But I have s feeling Harvard will be able to recruit someone to cover his teaching load.

This is debatable. Several of the policies he championed in the Clinton Admin are widely regarded as key causes of the 2008 collapse. And the Obama recovery was not as robust/long-lasting because he (and others) watered down provisions on the finance sector.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Despite this reporting by the Harvard newspaper he still showed up to teach. What a tool. How embarrassing. How outrageous kids are paying for this.

He showed up to class Tuesday and gave the statement that was posted to X by a student. He resigned Wednesday.

Class meets again this morning and he will not be there. His co-teacher Dr. Lawrence will teach the class.

My son is in the class. I only know what he tells me, which isn’t much. He’s enjoyed the course, they’ve had some awesome guests including Sam Altman, Oren Cass, Jake Sullivan. Tony Blair was supposed to guest lecture in the coming weeks; not sure if that will happen.

This is the education you get at Harvard: the former university president is trading dating advice with the ringleader of a child sex trafficker and teaching his class with ridiculous VIP "guest lecturers." What a joke. Claudine Gay may have been a deeply underwhelming intellectual and plaigirist but Summers is a hundred thousand times worse.

Agree with you about the VIP guest lecturers. If not cohesively integrated into the course design, what is the point? Other than superficial gloss and Summers himself not having to teach many classes.

It’s a class on Globalization and my son has really enjoyed it. Great debates, broad ideas on policy and procedure from those who have/had great influence. It’s fun to hear them debate and admit they’ve been wrong. Also when their view differed from their boss (aka the president).

Not glossing over anything having to do with Summers but the course itself has been worthwhile.

Its a pity that our best minds are taught by people like Summers. Maybe you think your kid is being molded by some great minds but Altman and Summers are two people I deeply despise.