Analysis
Thursday, February 1st 2024
Ruth R. Wisse Commentary Magazine, February 2024 “Where anti-Semitism and views that are profoundly anti-Israeli have traditionally been the primary preserve of poorly educated right-wing populists, profoundly anti-Israel views are increasingly finding support in progressive intellectual communities.” Forgive me for quoting myself, but there’s no other way to begin: “History rarely issues us a red […]
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Liel Leibovitz City Journal, Jan. 30, 2024 “As long as the DEI machinery continues to hum, it will offer preposterous courses, exclude groups it finds undesirable, excommunicate its foes, and expunge all but the beliefs it champions.” If you’ve ever watched a monster movie, you know the scene. The triumphant heroes walk away, the […]
Caroline Downey National Review, Jan. 31, 2024 “The previous selection process was conducted in record time,” Pollak said of Gay’s selection. “It appears, though, the important questions were not asked. This time around, we will be asking all the uncomfortable questions. Is this the most qualified candidate? Is this candidate’s publication record high quality enough?” […]
Thursday, February 1st 2024 / Wednesday, January 31st 2024
Tony Badran Tablet, Jan. 30, 2024 “American universities have made either an exceedingly clever or else exceedingly reprehensible bargain: quota-filling at a profit.” Five weeks after Rutgers University suspended the New Brunswick campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) on Dec. 11 for violating several university policies, the school reversed its decision and reinstated […]
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Friday, January 5th 2024 / Monday, January 8th 2024
SHABBAT READING Speech at ‘Closer to Israel’ at Trafalgar Square: Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, The Rabbi Sacks Legacy, June 2, 2013 –– In July 1938 leaders of 32 nations gathered in the French spa town of Evian knowing that something terrible was going to happen to the Jews, Knowing that unless they did something a tragedy would […]
Friday, January 5th 2024
Christopher F. Rufo WSJ, Jan. 3, 2023 “Throughout the campaign, I adopted the unorthodox approach of narrating the strategy in real time, explaining how conservatives could shape the media narrative and apply pressure to Harvard.” The left has spent decades consolidating power across the institutions of American academic life. The crowning achievement of that effort […]
Bret Stephens NY Times, Jan. 2, 2024 “… dehumanization is the price any institution pays when considerations of social engineering supplant those of individual achievement.” I had written and filed a column about Harvard and its president, Claudine Gay, when news of her resignation broke on Tuesday afternoon after fresh allegations of plagiarism in her published work. I’d like […]
Jonathan Tobin National Post, Jan. 3, 2023 “The reason why Gay was so vulnerable to criticism wasn’t just the testimony but the fact that her career embodied everything that is wrong about an ideology helping to fuel the surge in antisemitism in the United States.” In the end, not even the support of former U.S. […]
Joe Concha The Messenger, Jan. 4, 2024 “instead of accepting responsibility, Gay made her exit about the color of her skin.” MSNBC’s Joy Reid views the resignation of Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, as a case of racism and sexism. “There is this sort of open war on Black progress, Black history,” Reid said, and Gay “is now the […]
Thursday, January 4th 2024
EMPTY HONOUR Dissent: For Harvard’s Sake, It’s Time to Let Gay Go: Brooks B. Anderson and Joshua A. Kaplan, The Harvard Crimson, Dec. 31, 2023 — University President Claudine Gay should resign. It has been less than half a year since Gay assumed one of the most prestigious posts in all of academia. Since then, scandal after […]
Melissa Korn WSJ, Jan. 3, 2024 “The most important thing that they can do right now is say everything. As many updates as they can provide, as much as they can tell the community, as much as they can openly and in real time share, the better off Harvard will be in the long […]
Peter W. Wood The Spectator, Jan. 3, 2023 “Why is it in the best interests of Harvard to unload a dishonest, serial plagiarist, whose record of scholarship would embarrass a cooked lobster?” In the end Barack Obama, Penny Pritzker, 700-some members of the faculty, the mighty voice of the Harvard Crimson and the entire nomenclature […]
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