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Rethinking Higher Ed with Harvard’s Former President
Rethinking Higher Ed with Harvard’s Former President
(Photo courtesy of Lawrence H. Summers)
Larry Summers reveals why universities should ban legacy admissions, scrap elite sports, and make a first-rate education more available to all.
By Bari Weiss
07.22.23 — Education
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Rethinking Higher Ed with Harvard’s Former President

Last week I found myself in Sun Valley, Idaho, at a conference with a lot of big wigs. Among them was Larry Summers—an economist, the Secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton, and a former president of Harvard University. The timing was fortuitous.

Last month, Harvard went before the Supreme Court to defend its race-based admission policies. The scho…

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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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