Over at Bloomberg Opinion, Stephen L. Carter has a crushingly accurate piece, “Harvard’s Shameful History Repeats Itself”, recounting how Harvard, which once let itself be bullied by Joe McCarthy, now lets itself be bullied by enraged feminists and other pc types, dismissing husband and wife Harvard Law professors Ronald Sullivan and Stephanie Robinson as deans of Winthrop House, which I take it is some sort of Harvard-style dorm. Sullivan’s great offense is choosing to represent uber schmuck Harvey Weinstein and Robinson’s is being married to Sullivan.
I certainly don’t find Sullivan’s choice to represent Weinstein attractive. It’s not like Sullivan’s representing some indigent loser accused of raping a six-year-old. Sullivan’s letting himself be used by Weinstein (Sullivan’s black) in return for both cash and, far more importantly, notoriety. But if having an Alan Dershowitz-sized ego meant losing a position at Harvard—well, the rest of the sentence writes itself.
