Former Harvard president and current government and economics professor Larry Summers told his students this week that he intends to continue teaching, despite recent damning revelations about his correspondence with convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein. Summers addressed the students in his introductory economics course, “The Political Economy of Globalization,” on Tuesday, Nov. 18, following the release of a new batch of Epstein emails that showed he had allegedly corresponded with the late billionaire for years, right up until the day before Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in July 2019.
00:00Some of you will have seen my statement of regret, expressing my shame with respect to what I did in communication with Mr. Epstein, and that I said that I'm going to step back from public education for part-time, but I think it's very important to fulfill my teaching obligations.
00:21And so, with your permission, we're going to go forward and talk about the material in the class.
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