All Wrong

Richard Bradley (aka Richard Blow) writes one of the silliest pieces I've seen in the LA Times in a long time -- and that's saying something.

Bradley argues that Larry Summers was done in not because of politics, but because he was trying to make Harvard University more like Washington, whatever that means, and the Harvard faculty (presumably, bravely, in Bradley's view) was simply resisting politicization. In a nutshell, Bradley argues:

Summers was ousted not because of a clash of conservative versus liberal ideologies. After all, Summers was Bill Clinton's former Treasury secretary. He is a liberal.

Not by Harvard standards, pal -- by that measuring stick, he's a reactionary right winger (and so is Bill Clinton, for that matter). And Bradley's written a book about Harvard? Wouldn't trust much that it says . . . he doesn't know what he's talking about.