Harvard's Summers Takes 'Leave' After Epstein Emails Surface
Former Harvard President Larry Summers, the economic luminary who served in the Clinton administration, has taken 'leave' from teaching after emails revealed Jeffrey Epstein referred to himself as Summers' 'wing man.' Axios reports this tidy administrative shuffling as Harvard 'investigates.' One might recall, Summers also resigned from Harvard's presidency in 2006 amid controversies, suggesting a
pattern of powerful men exiting stage left when inconvenient truths emerge, only to resurface in new positions of influence. This isn't an isolated incident; it's a playbook. When accountability looms, the well-connected simply 'take leave' or 'step back,' allowing the news cycle to churn before their inevitable return to some other institution, conveniently scrubbed of past associations. The
silence that follows is designed to let us forget, until the next 'wing man' scandal. Harvard's 'review' is merely an intermission for powerful circles.