Here are a few more more blog reactions to the resignation of Lawrence Summers:

Belmont Club:

Free speech is under increasing attack. One would have thought that newspaper caricaturists, professional historians and the president of the richest university in the world could express an opinion. The Mohammed cartoons, David Irving and Lawrence Summers show that even traditional opinion-makers, people whose stock-in-trade are ideas, must watch their back.

Commenter at Outside the Beltway:

Given how many academics pride themselves on challenging their students to question their assumptions, it’s regrettable how some Harvard profs reacted to the same treatment.

Everyman:

Being Preident of Harvard should mean never having to say you’re sorry, it seems to me, but then, I’m old fashioned when it comes to this sort of thing.

Summers, a moderate Democrat we’re told, obviously does not share that view, for all the good it did him, and when the faculty a year ago disagreed with his right to say what he believed, he did not defend himself, did not wrap himself, justly, in the blanket of academic freedom and the First Amendment, but instead thought it best to eat crow (as they most decidedly do not say at Harvard, ever), bow his head, and take, stoically, the criticisms that came his way for doing that which someone in his position is supposed to do, speak his mind.

He now has his reward.

And Harvard its continuing problems of a lack of leadership.

Just desserts . . .

I’d say.

I saved the best for quote for last. It comes from Dr. Sanity:

In the history of academia, I don’t think anyone has ever come closer to voluntary castration for the cause of radical feminism. And look where it got him.

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