Whereas the emails that Larry
Summers sent to the disgraced underage-sex-ring boss, Jeffrey Epstein, did not—at
least to my knowledge—involve Summers’ role as a professor at Harvard, Yale’s
David Gelernter, who had been wounded in 1993 by a mail-explosive that had been
sent by the “Unabomber,”—an event that I remember in person as I was a Yale
student back then—wrote not only on topics such as business and art, but also
to recommend a hot female student to work as an editor for Epstein. Specifically,
Gelernter had a Yale senior in mind—a student he described in the email as a “v
small good-looking blonde.”[1]
Whereas Larry Summers apologized publicly
(and to his class) in late 2025 for his bad judgment in having continued to
exchange emails with Epstein even after the latter’s conviction, Gelernter saw
nothing to apologize for in spite of the fact that the flagged email pertained
to his role as a professor (in recommending a student). He was actually proud
of the email that he had sent as a professor concerning a student to the
sex-predator! The sheer brazenness of Gelernter’s self-defense reveals
something about the privileged mentality of Yale’s faculty—a mentality that is
not good for academia or Yale.
The full essay is at "On the Self-Entitlement of Yale's Faculty."
1. Dave Collins, “A Yale Professor Recommended a ‘Good-Looking Blonde’ Student for a Job with Epstein. He’s Not Sorry,” APnews.com, February 11, 2026.
