Larry Summers on Harvard’s Showdown With Trump

Yascha Mounk and Larry Summers also discuss the administration’s tariffs.

Lawrence H. Summers is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University. He served as the 71st Secretary of the Treasury for President Clinton and the Director of the National Economic Council for President Obama.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Larry Summers discuss why tariffs are so concerning, how Harvard should react to the Trump administration cutting its funding, and whether the Democratic Party can become a credible opposition.

Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay.

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