Instapundit.com - quotes and notes:
Lawrence Summers, though he said some things well worth objecting to, falls well short of that standard. By applying this ban to him, the Regents suggest an impossibly low tolerance for controversy at the University of California.Indeed. Though rather than “suggest,” I’d say the appropriate word is “demonstrate.”
Well, Rauchway conveniently misstates and misframes the issue, doesn’t he? With the minor exception of the Chemerinsky affair - and nobody has yet conclusively demonstrated this was an “anti-liberal” rather than an anti-controverial affair - the academy, especially the California academy - is perfectly comfortable with controversy. As long as the controversy meets the demands of left-wing orthodoxy. “Controversial” conservatives - and all conservatives are, by definition, “controversial” - however, need never apply.
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