The Summers Peril
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The Crimson has another report on the husband of the Harvard literature professor who apparently thinks that Humbert Humbert is a reliable narrator, and needless to say the further information about the Summers/Epstein relationship is not mitigating:
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he sought guidance from a longtime associate: convicted sex offender Jeffrey E. Epstein.
In a sequence of texts and emails between November 2018 and July 5, 2019, Summers turned to Epstein for advice on his pursuit of the woman. Epstein was quick to chime in with assurance and suggestions, describing himself in one November 2018 message as Summers’ “wing man.”
The messages became public after House Republicans released more than 20,000 files from the Epstein estate on Wednesday. Summers’ correspondence with Epstein, a financier who pled guilty to soliciting prostitution from a minor in 2008, ends just one day before Epstein was arrested on new sex trafficking charges.
Together, the messages show Summers — who served as Treasury Secretary under former United States President Bill Clinton — placing an extraordinary degree of trust in Epstein, asking him for help in navigating a relationship that blurred the boundaries of his professional and personal lives.
Summers, who has been married since 2005, told Epstein he thought the woman was reluctant to leave him because she valued his professional connections. Epstein told him in one June 2019 text, “She is doomed to be with you.”
“Think for now I’m going nowhere with her except economics mentor,” Summers wrote in November 2018. “I think I’m right now in the seen very warmly in rear view mirror category.”
“She must be very confused or maybe wants to cut me off but wants professional connection a lot and so holds to it,” Summers wrote in a March 2019 exchange to Epstein, explaining why he believed she continued to engage with him despite tensions.
Seeking out Jeffrey Epstein’s advice about how to fuck a student you have an ongoing professional relationship with — or at least a pretextual one — is the kind of detail that would cost you your agent if you tried to include it in a broad satire.
It gets worse!
In at least some of his exchanges with Epstein on the relationship, Summers appears to refer to macroeconomist Keyu Jin ’04, a tenured professor at the London School of Economics at the time, who is mentioned in a series of late 2018 messages between the two men.
In one, Summers forwarded Epstein an email from Jin asking for feedback on a paper. Summers mused to Epstein that it was “probably appropriate” to hold off on responding.
“She’s already begining to sound needy :) nice,” Epstein replied.
Jin, who earned her bachelor’s degree and Ph.D. at Harvard between 2000 and 2009, declined to comment on the months of messages between Summers and Epstein. In the messages released by the House, she does not refer to a romantic relationship with Summers. It is not clear whether she was aware that Summers shared her emails or discussed her with Epstein.
Throughout the seven months of correspondence reviewed by The Crimson, Summers and Epstein referred to the woman Summers was pursuing in some messages by the code name “peril” but never used her name in messages directly describing the relationship. On at least two occasions, the two men discussed Jin’s emails to Summers, which he forwarded to Epstein. In later messages, the two men appeared to joke about the probability that Summers would have sex with the woman, apparently Jin.
Yes, their sniggering code name for the student from China Summers was trying to get “horizontal” (his word) with was “peril.” The cynicism of the Campus Free Speech moral panic is well known, but this kind of casual racism from a recent president of Harvard in a colloquy with his famous sex criminal buddy is still jarring.
And note the timeline here. Julie Brown’s dispositive expose of Epstein and the elites who let him get away with it appeared in November 2018. So most or all of this correspondence happened after any possible doubt about what Epstein was had vanished. Summers was corresponding with Epstein until literally the day before the latter was arrested again.
And by the way:
Summers has continued to teach at Harvard since, interrupted by brief stints in Washington, and currently holds Harvard’s highest faculty distinction as a University Professor. This semester, he is teaching two large undergraduate courses and one graduate class.
Summers’s relationship with all of these students, particularly women and those of Asian descent, has been permanently tainted. Even for America’s overcompensated and unperperforming elite this is gross.