Summers Storm and Harvard Hysterics

Posted January 27, 2005, 12:37 p.m.

Two interesting Op-Eds (the first by Ruth Marcus from last Saturday and the second by George Will today) over on the Washington Post website. They are about Harvard University President Larry Summers’s comments on gender differences, which have raised such a stink in academia.

But the op-eds are about much more than Summers’s comments; they are also commentaries on the intellectual close-mindedness pervasive on college campuses today. (Because God forbid we discuss the scientific possibility that the verified physiological differences between men and women extend to the brain!)

Read the articles, they’re both very good and jive very well with my opinions on this matter.

Summers Storm and Harvard Hysterics (WashingtonPost.com, free registration may be required).

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

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Our inner consciences scream with neuroses and psychoses, too, when we do not freely tend to the supreme goal for which we are made, namely, the life and truth and love that are God.

Fulton Sheen

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

P.J. O’Rourke

The Church alone has the right to make laws concerning the Sacrament of marriage, though the state also has the right to make laws concerning the civil effects of the marriage contract.

U.S. Conf. of Catholic Bishops

Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men.

H. L. Mencken

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Martin Luther King Jr.

There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

Mignon McLaughlin

Earnest among the thoughtless, awake among the sleepers, the wise man advances like a racer, leaving behind the hack.

Siddhartha Gautama

Nobody really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.

Mignon McLaughlin

The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.

George Washington

[Pure] democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.

James Madison

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can.

John Wesley

The duty of the survivor is to bear testimony to what happened. . . . You have to warn people that these things can happen, that evil can be unleashed.

Elie Wiesel

Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.

Mignon McLaughlin

Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready.

Teddy Roosevelt

Yet there is no greater freedom than that of allowing oneself to be guided by the Holy Spirit, renouncing the attempt to plan and control everything to the last detail, and instead letting him enlighten, guide, and direct us, leading us wherever he wills.

Francis (Pope)

Every group feels strong once it has found a scapegoat.

Mignon McLaughlin

Totalitarians are fond of saying that Christianity is the enemy of the State—a euphemistic way of saying an enemy of themselves.

Fulton Sheen

Untouched by the breath of God, unrestricted by human conscience, both capitalism and socialism are repulsive.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

No government, any more than an individual, will long be respected without being truly respectable; nor be truly respectable, without possessing a certain portion of order and stability.

James Madison

Totalitarian regimes tend to emphasize state education, because they know that indoctrinating the children protects their positions of power.

Scott Bradford

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