Most interesting was the idea of conservatism as an asset for some classes of enterprise: “Harvard, institutionally, never had change when I first came here,”

Most interesting was the idea of conservatism as an asset for some classes of enterprise: “Harvard, institutionally, never had change when I first came here,” the law professor Alan Dershowitz told me. “It was like the old baseball teams; you were born here and you died here.... But the turnover now has become like corporate turnover—and that always takes a toll.”