Academic Political Correctness

Free speech seems to be under fire lately. The greatest example is perhaps the cartoon furor, but I'm particularly disturbed by the resignation of Larry Summers as president of Harvard. To me, this is political correctness gone awry. Summers was skewered because he suggested that innate gender differences may be why there were fewer women professors than men. I think this sounds like an excellent topic for further research, especially at a noted research institution as Harvard. I don't think anyone can claim that there are not "innate gender differences" between men and women. Short of the ability to discuss this in a university setting and research it, how could we ever address it? If anyplace should be a bastion of free speech, it should be the university, and this action bolsters the argument that universities are held captive by the p.c. left.