Harvard University president Lawrence Summers began his now-infamous talk at the National Bureau of Economic Research blandly enough. “I am speaking unofficially and not using this as an occasion to lay out the many things we’re doing at Harvard to promote the crucial objective of diversity.” But Summers then proceeded to discuss some of the possible differences between the sexes — both natural and social — and so began the latest academic tempest in a crimson teapot. Summers’s remarks are worth quoting at some length. As a possible explanation for why more men than women reach the top of certain … Continue reading Crimson Recriminations