My latest column in the Daily Mail:
On Tuesday we learned President Gay has the unanimous backing of the university’s executive board, the Harvard Corporation. Some 700 faculty members have also signed a letter in support. Proof then, if any were needed, that the ugly institutional rot runs far deeper than just the head.
At UPenn, pressure from one donor who allegedly threatened to withdraw $100 million in funding was eventually enough to see the axe wielded on Magill. Money talks. But Harvard, with its swollen $50 billion endowment, is clearly rich enough to afford bigotry – even when it has reportedly lost as much as a billion dollars in donations in recent days.