“Shit.  Shoulda brought my gloves.”

In keeping with today’s earlier discussions on progressivism and the “diversity” agenda, here’s a bit from the SF Chronicle on former exile Michelle Bachelet being named Chile’s president (h/t Terry Hastings): In her first official act as president, Bachelet swore in her 20-member Cabinet of 10 men and 10 women. She has promised to have equal numbers of men and women in some 300 decision-making posts. She plans legislation that

Here is the full text of the introduction (ultimately removed) of the no-confidence resolution against Lawrence Summers written by the Harvard faculty.  Notes The WS’s “Scrapbook,” “That introduction made explicit the infantile leftist agenda of Summers’s detractors. It is worth reading in full, and is reproduced below in all its politically correct glory:”

A long but very interesting article on the fall of Larry Summers by James Piereson, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.  Piereson frames Summers’ dismissal as Harvard president as “the triumph of the diversity faction” in the academy—particularly within the arts and sciences.  Because Piereson’s pieces touches on a number of issues I’ve been writing on over the last several weeks, I’m going to quote from it at length.