Fighting for Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom

In my 38 years of teaching at Harvard Law School, I don’t recall ever writing in praise of any action by a Harvard president, but this time I must congratulate President Lawrence H. Summers for his willingness to say out loud what many of us in the Harvard community have long believed: namely, that singling…

Address at morning prayers Memorial Church Cambridge, Massachusetts Comments by Lawrence Summers President September 17, 2002 I speak with you today not as President of the University but as a concerned member of our community about something that I never thought I would become seriously worried about -­the issue of anti-Semitism. I am Jewish, identified…