Exhibit A why Elizabeth Warren was right to call out Larry Summers over his emails with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein: This Harvard Crimson story. Check it out. Summers was basically asking a known sex predator how to seduce a “mentee,” i.e. a younger woman he was effectively mentoring. Epstein’s advice is chilling. … Warren is right: Summers doesn’t belong in a classroom after this – even though the “mentee” in question was probably not a student. Just an ex-student. … Harvard Crimson piece via the WSJ.

Update – 11.19.25 – The Globe’s Adrian Walker thinks Summers’s emails were “sub-juvenile” and the least of his career-long offenses.

Update II –– 11.20.25 — Summers is taking leave from teaching, GBH reports. … The Globe’s Joan Vennochi thinks the focus on Summers is distracting from Trump’s own ties to Epstein.