Larry Summers: There Are Real Issues of Anti-Semitism on the Harvard Campus, Cutting Funding Is Not the Answer

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SUMMERS: “There's much more that our leadership is going to have to do to shape a culture that, as President Garber said, does not abide bigotry. And that's going to be a large challenge for Harvard's leadership. I think it's legitimate for the government to have concern over what is a civil rights issue. What's not legitimate is to behave in an entirely extra-legal way, cutting off funding without any kind of hearing, cutting off funding for cancer research because there's bad activities in the divinity school, failing to give notice in the ways that are prescribed by the statute, venturing into areas that have nothing to do with anti-Semitism or civil rights like the ideological disposition of members of the faculty. So the Trump administration is way out of line with respect to law. The concerns about Harvard having a civil rights issue around anti-Semitism are real. There's been constructive action. This report is useful, but there's much more that needs to be done.”