Larry Summers to Resign Harvard Teaching Appointments Over Epstein Files
“The resignation marks an extraordinary unraveling for Summers, long one of the most influential figures in American economics.”
This feels a bit like ‘Me Too’ all over again, doesn’t it?
The Harvard Crimson reports:
Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties
Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest faculty distinction — and remaining on leave until that time, a Harvard spokesperson confirmed to The Crimson.
Summers also resigned Wednesday from his role as co-director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School, a position he has held since 2011, according to the spokesperson. He will not teach or take on new advisees.
The resignation marks an extraordinary unraveling for Summers, long one of the most influential figures in American economics. His career spanned prize-winning research, service as United States Treasury Secretary, and the presidency of Harvard.
In a statement to The Crimson, Summers wrote that the decision to leave was “difficult” and that he remained “grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.”
“Free of formal responsibility, as President Emeritus and a retired professor, I look forward in time to engaging in research, analysis, and commentary on a range of global economic issues,” he added.
Summers’ standing began to collapse after a cache of emails disclosed in November revealed details of a long-standing personal relationship between Summers and convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein.
The correspondence revealed that Summers regularly exchanged messages with Epstein about women, politics, and Harvard-linked projects over at least seven years — staying in contact as late as July 2019, the day before Epstein’s final arrest.
The blowback was immediate and fierce. After the initial release of the emails, Summers said he would continue teaching. But as more correspondence was reviewed, he announced he would step back from public commitments and leave his teaching post. In the days that followed, Summers stepped down or parted ways with a slew of organizations, including the New York Times, Bloomberg, and OpenAI.
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Funny how Summers’s association with Epstein ruined him, but students and professors advocating genocide of Jews merrily go along their way with nary a worry.
I’m amazed this dude still has anything he can resign FROM.
I thought he had already resigned from every part of his career over all this stuff long ago.
I thought the left had already canceled him years ago for telling the truth about the difference between male and female brains.
He may have been esteemed by the Left to some degree, but NONE of them heeded his warnings in 2021 that Biden’s disastrous American Rescue Plan would trigger inflation.
Summers took his honeymoon with his second wife to Epstein Island. How many liberals can say that.