New York– Harvard President Claudine Gay resigned today after City Journal, the Manhattan Institute's in-house journal, reported repeated academic plagiarism.
Christopher F. Rufo, Manhattan Institute senior scholar and City Journal contributing editor, co-wrote that initial piece and has subsequently shaped the national debate over Gay's academic integrity and leadership.
City Journal has also helped the public comprehend Harvard and other elite colleges' evolving ideological climate, especially the close relationship between progressive racial orthodoxy and campus antisemitism.
Heather Mac Donald's “The Academy at a Crossroads” (Part I, Part II) described how DEI bureaucracy have restricted free speech and promoted an anti-Western curriculum.
The Manhattan Institute's director of constitutional studies, Ilya Shapiro, has also been vocal about Harvard and other elite colleges' problems. He comments on her resignation:
Harvard's problems continue after its president resigned. It doesn't resolve the plagiarism problem because the Harvard Corporation hid the initial claims and hired a law firm to threaten journalists who broke the story.
Harvard is not alone in the wider issues of poisonous campus culture and bureaucratic bloat that hinder free research and speech.
The rot in academia was exposed by Hamas's attack and university presidents' terrible performance at a congressional hearing on college antisemitism.