Matt Yglesias on Summers

Yglesias writes a wonderful paragraph on Summers that dovetails nicely with my last diary on political correctness:

One could go on and on like this, but I'll just add that last, and by no means least in my estimation, some of us are a bit sick and tired of Summers' willingness to serve as a useful idiot for the right's ever-intensifying campaign against the American academy coming in the midst of what's really an unprecedented assault on the concepts of objective knowledge and disinterested scholarship from a rapacious but increasingly demented conservative movement.