Minouche Shafik and the great tragicomedy of Diversity in our time
Diversity has long been the enemy of academic excellence
Claudine Gay
Friday
Tuesday
The trouble with the elite American campus
The inexperience at the top is on full display
Tuesday
How ‘woke’ hierarchy created an upper-class underclass
Our self-styled betters have neither raised us up toward a more perfect meritocracy nor led us triumphantly into a classless paradise
Thursday
Coleman Hughes’s case for a colorblind future
The End of Race Politics expands on the arguments the writer has made for several years
Tuesday
The fight for civilization in higher education
The ‘School of General Education Act’ insists that all students in a state’s public university system take a prescribed sequence of courses that will take them through most of Western history
Thursday
Claudine Gay may be gone, but the issues on campus remain
Can universities clean up their acts on their own or will it take pressure from unhappy donors and parents?
Wednesday
Biden’s Breakfast Club problem
Plus: Congress reacts to Claudine Gay’s resignation, GOP visits the border
Lessons from the removal of Harvard’s president
Her decision to leave Harvard’s presidency is not a real goodbye
Claudine Gay was bad for Harvard, but Harvard is bad for the country
She was the perfect embodiment of ‘Harvard,’ the scare quotes indicating not so much a single institution as a state of mind
Friday
When will Harvard give Claudine Gay the boot?
Gay is bad for Harvard, but Harvard is bad for the country, so her continued presence is a net positive
Sunday
Why plagiarism matters
To think critically is to think with the utmost serious attention about the sources which warrant your attention
Wednesday
The perils of Harvard and Claudine Gay
She achieved everything by her skill at positioning herself as a principal voice of opposition to white supremacy
Tuesday
Our strangled language on Israel and Gaza
We shouldn’t be surprised given the terrible examples our students have to follow
Thursday
The disgraceful, ducking, diving, dodging college presidents
Their testimony to Congress was saturated by feminization
