Rosie Couture, a senior at Harvard College, is not enrolled in The Political Economy of Globalization, but last week she attended twice. According to the official description, the class explores “why globalization — which has provided decades of prosperity and peace — is currently in turmoil.” Taking it satisfies the Ethics & Civics requirement. Until last week, it was co-taught by Professor Larry Summers .

Couture, who is also an organizer with the campus Feminist Coalition, went to class Tuesday to see how Summers might respond to the recent release of his long, cozy, and sometimes lecherous email correspondence with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, right up to Epstein’s second arrest in 2019. When she got to the classroom, students were whispering, some with their laptops op

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