The Important Thing Is Harvard Lost

Ihave heard it lamented in recent days that, despite the scale and consequence of the evidence that was presented against her, the removal of Claudine Gay from the presidency of Harvard University still took “far too long.” This, undoubtedly, is true. Had Gay been a student, she would have been removed 15 seconds after the first tranche of documents was made public. Had Gay been a conservative, she’d have been summarily launched into the sun. Nevertheless, what seems important about this case is not that it confirmed once again that our elite institutions are playing Calvinball, but that, despite the best that they could throw at it, Harvard was unable to make the objections to Gay’s behavior disappear into thin air.

Harvard lost.