When Harvard’s first Black president, Claudine Gay, resigned this January in the face of a double-barreled scandal—she allegedly didn’t adequately condemn Hamas’s October attack on Israel, and then there were accusations of plagiarism in several of her old academic papers—it seemed as though the school might be suffocating on the fumes of its own progressivism.
This seemed doubly true earlier this week when, according to The Times of London, academics “tasked with creating a memorial to the slaves who helped to shape the university said it was interested only in its image.”
