Read it on the homepage of the New York Times – “Know What You’re Protesting.”

In bullet points:

- “I applaud the protesters for thinking beyond their own parochial concerns and trying to make society a better place for everyone.”

- “[M]y second reaction was sadness at how poorly informed the Harvard protesters seemed to be. [...] Their complaints seemed to me to be a grab bag of anti-establishment platitudes without much hard-headed analysis or clear policy prescriptions.”

- “Economics 10 is a broad, generalized survey of mainstream economics. You’d get basically the same material at most other universities. I don’t view the study of economics as laden with ideology.”

The best part: “I have been told that at least one of the students who walked out sneaked back in later: he wanted to support the protest but didn’t want to miss the lecture.”

Well, this is still Harvard.

Look out for our profile of N. Gregory Mankiw, the Harvard Professor of Economics, later this month!

Gregory N. Mankiw may be an entertaining (re: so pompous it’s funny) man, but his lecture is probably the last thing on the mind of those enterprising students who trudged through the rain to Sanders for today’s lecture. At the beginning of class, a bald bat-like man ran through lecture in a bright orange jumpsuit and attacked an unfortunate student toward the front row.

As a bemused Mankiw looked on, a doctor in lab coat rushed in seeking the bat boy, sedating syringe in hand. And we’ve got it all on vid.  Marginal cost of watching? That essay will probably suffer. Marginal revenue? Unbounded joy.

Want more? Check here. And make sure you go see Bat Boy playing December 4-11 in the NCT.