Harvard's Lawrence Summers, the first Ivy League president to forcefully condemn the rise of anti-Semitism ("in effect if not intent") on college campuses, recently reported that things were looking up in academe: The anti-Israel divestment movement has died down and tensions overall have diminished, he told a Jerusalem audience.

* Harvard's Lawrence Summers, the first Ivy League president to forcefully condemn the rise of anti-Semitism ("in effect if not intent") on college campuses, recently reported that things were looking up in academe: The anti-Israel divestment movement has died down and tensions overall have diminished, he told a Jerusalem audience. Summers also went on a mini-tirade worth noting: "One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness to fall into a kind of relativistic denialism in which all positions are equally legitimate, all positions must be respected, and compromise must be entered into no matter what the starting point or reasonableness of the two parties." He added, "It seems to me that Israel is right. Its friends are right. Moral people everywhere are right to resist this approach." Larry Summers appears to be an outlier in academia. Now if only he could marshal his clarity and conviction to bring ROTC back to Harvard's campus at last.