This morning Larry Summers talked with me about the issues currently facing Harvard internally and externally.

I wanted to get Summer’s opinion because he’s openly critical of the Trump Administration’s authoritarian onslaught against Harvard, but he’s also been openly critical of the slowness of Harvard’s leadership to fight antisemitism on campus.

He and I last talked about Harvard on October 9th 2023, when he was very upset at then Harvard President Claudine Gay and her hypocrisy, as he saw it, by not outright condemning the October 7th attack on Israel by Hamas, given that the school’s leadership had been vocal in its condemnation of the murder of George Floyd and on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Silence, in his view wasn’t good enough. There need to be “consistent standards” he says in our conversation.

Watch the full conversation on Vicky Ward Investigates.