Charles Fried Isn’t Listening

One could hardly ask for a better caricature of a closed-minded leftist academic than this quote from retired Harvard Law professor Charles Fried on the plagiarism charges against Harvard president Claudine Gay:

Of course, not one of the plagiarism charges depends upon the credibility of the people raising them. This is not the sort of accusation that involves anonymous sourcing or he-said-she-said disputes over an event. It’s literally just a matter of comparing two texts. If Fried won’t read the evidence before running to the New York Times to comment, that says more about him than it does about the critics.

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One could hardly ask for a better caricature of a closed-minded leftist academic than this quote from retired Harvard Law professor Charles Fried on the plagiarism charges against Harvard president Claudine Gay:

Of course, not one of the plagiarism charges depends upon the credibility of the people raising them. This is not the sort of accusation that involves anonymous sourcing or he-said-she-said disputes over an event. It’s literally just a matter of comparing two texts. If Fried won’t read the evidence before running to the New York Times to comment, that says more about him than it does about the critics.