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Economic Policy Before and After the 2024 Election
November 24th, 2024
My conversation on economic policy before and after the election with John Ellis at the Harvard Institute of Politics.
The cancer of antisemitism is spreading. Colleges must take the right stand.
Lawrence H. Summers, a Post contributing columnist, is a professor at and past president of Harvard University. This column is adapted from remarks delivered at the Harvard Medical and Dental School Shabbat Observance on Nov. 10.
We are, I am convinced, at a moment of moral and mortal peril in the world and in university communities like my own. I will not spend time here detailing Hamas’s evil barbarism or the malevolence of its sponsors. Many others have done that well, including President Biden.
My focus is much closer to home. For more than two decades, since I spoke of antisemitism in effect if not intent in response to the Divest Israel movement while serving as Harvard’s president, I have been alarmed. More recent developments — from Harvard’s student newspaper’s endorsements of the boycott-divest-sanction (BDS) movement, to testimonials by Israeli students regarding in-class discrimination, to vile social read more