West: Summers=Sharon

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Apr 17 12:13:16 PDT 2002


Brad DeLong wrote:


>>"Larry Summers strikes me as the Ariel Sharon of American higher
>>education," Dr. West said today. "He struck me very much as a bull
>>in a china shop, and as a bully, in a very delicate and dangerous
>>situation."...
>
>Ah. A return to an old tradition: University Professors at Harvard
>calling people dirty jews. A tradition that I had thought had died
>out brought to life once again...

Perhaps you should ask your neighbor in the Bay Area Rabbi Michael Lerner if that's West's meaning. I doubt it is.

Doug



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