Speaking Truth To Power

Harvard president Larry Summers does it once in a while, but doesn't have the balls to stick to his guns. John Leo tries to help Mr. Summers out.

He could have said something like this:

"Yesterday I spoke bluntly at a closed academic conference and offered some possible explanations of why women are less represented than men in the upper reaches of math and science. In addition to the cost of the time women spend in bearing and raising children, I said that innate sexual differences may be playing a role."