Larry Summers, veteran of the Clinton and Obama administrations, was also a bigshot at Harvard University. I wrote about the first time he got axed from a Harvard job in “Women in Science” (2006):
[Summers] claimed to be giving a comprehensive list of reasons why there weren’t more women reaching the top jobs in the sciences. Yet Summers, an economist, left one out: Adjusted for IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States.
Summers is in the news again… “Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties” (Harvard Crimson):
Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year….
Association with Jeffrey Epstein was sufficiently serious that Summers must resign, but not so urgent that the resignation can’t wait until June.
Only loosely related, since nobody cares… what exactly did Summers do with the arch criminal Epstein? ChatGPT:
newly released emails from the Jeffrey Epstein estate show that Larry Summers privately consulted Jeffrey Epstein about his pursuit of a romantic relationship with a younger woman he described in the emails as his “mentee.” In one exchange from late 2018 and early 2019, Epstein even referred to himself as Summers’s “wing man” while offering advice on how to communicate with this woman.
According to news reports about the email release, the woman in question was Keyu Jin, a well-known economist who at the time was a tenured professor at the London School of Economics and a Harvard graduate. She was in her early 40s (around 43) during the period these email exchanges took place.
Summers is obviously a sad case. He was about the most arrogant guy on the planet & probably one of the most intelligent — an heir to some of the best genetic material mankind possesses. One might have thought that Summers had been neutered after he had the temerity to point out that men cluster at both the far left and far right of the curve and women more toward the mean. But this was not the case- indeed we now learn that in fact Summers had not been neutered. With respect to Epstein, we should probably distinguish people who had relationships with Epstein before he was convicted of sex trafficking minors and those who had relationships after the conviction and imprisonment. Summers falls into the second category. Now that seems like really bad judgment – a married man, Harvard professor, former Harvard President & Secty of the Treasury, importuning a convicted sex offender by email to help you improve your sex life, to help you get “horizontal,” I think that is the way Summers put it, with some woman. As one of the FBI agents I used to work with said, about someone else, Summers let the little head do the thinking for the big head. And who among us is so certain he would not have done the same had he had the opportunity?