Only at Harvard University could a Clintonite be labeled a radical right-winger. Well, okay, maybe there are a few other schools where this could happen, but you get the point. Harvard University President Larry Summers supported the restoration of ROTC, wondered aloud whether genetics plays some role in sex disparities in math and science, and questioned the value of a faculty that shunned classroom instruction in favor of other pursuits, such as Cornel West releasing a rap CD. All of this sparked Harvard's Faculty of Arts and Sciences to pass a "no confidence" motion on Summers last year, as well as political hostility toward Summers that last week persuaded him to resign his post, effective this summer.

"I'm clearly in the left 20 percent of the country, nationally. I'm a Ted Kennedy liberal," Alan Dershowitz explained to the Associated Press. "In the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, I'm in the 10 percent side of the conservatives." Dershowitz laments Summers' resignation as well as the narrow range of political views at Harvard. "That doesn't show I'm out of sync with the country," the Harvard law professor noted of his position vis-a-vis his fellow Harvard faculty members. "It shows how out of sync Harvard is."

This is not mere rhetoric. My own study of political giving among employees at top schools gives statistical backing to Professor Dershowitz's words. In Deep Blue Campuses, I found that 406 donations went to John Kerry from Harvard employees in the '04 election cycle, while just 13 donations went to George W. Bush. In monetary terms, Kerry received $25 for every $1 donated to George W. Bush from Harvard employees. Dershowitz gave generously to liberal Democrats, and Summers got his Ph.D. from Harvard, worked for Brookings Institution, and served as Bill Clinton's Secretary of the Treasury from July 1999 until January 2001. That the school's liberal arts professors consider these Democrats at the far-Right of the political spectrum tells you quite a bit about the missing colors in the political spectrum at Harvard.

Whacko leftist Feminazis got him.

And, Heaven forbid that Harvard expect it's black professorship to take pause from extracurricular activities to teach any classes!

Perfect examples of leftist dogma where free thought is ok as long as it's the correct kind of free thought.

Clearly it is politics over academics at Harvard. Just as clearly, diversity is only skin deep.