What makes a banana republic a banana republic is not any prosecution of the outgoing administration, but baseless, politically motivated prosecution. There is a whole literature which teaches that, if crimes against the public order occurred, failing to prosecute them hastens democratic decline.

One thing about being a law professor who researches sexual abuse is that a lot of victims of it want to tell you there stories so that you can help make sense of them. When institutions treat them as problems, it leaves them baffled. Harvard has a cultural problem and Summers is part of it.

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