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Now that Claudine Gay is out as Harvard's president on evidence that she plagiarized research and failed to counter antisemitism on campus, Harvard's elites are steaming with fury. They had, after all, signed a letter urging that the university keep her and her wokester policies on board. But that wasn't the worst of it. The biggest indignity was in the knowledge of who took her down: Not a top Harvard scholar but a lowly Harvard night school student with the equivalent of a master's degree named Christopher Rufo, writing on his humble Substack. He was the one who found the...

Whew, what a week it’s been for higher ed!The Claudine Gay debacle at Harvard has raised some fundamental questions about academia in general. She was president of the university, traditionally seen as the pinnacle of American academia.But a careful look at her extremely thin academic publishing record was packed with unattributed borrowings from other authors in her own field.Once all of this became public, and in light of her Congressional testimony in which she found a new love for the free speech that has been heretofore nearly banned at Harvard, it became impossible for her to continue as president and...

The billionaire hedge fund manager and major Harvard donor Bill Ackman seized on revelations that Harvard's president, Claudine Gay, had plagiarized some passages in her academic work to underscore his calls for her removal following what he perceived as her mishandling of large protests against Israel's bombardment of Gaza on Harvard's campus. An analysis by Business Insider found a similar pattern of plagiarism by Ackman's wife, Neri Oxman, who became a tenured professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2017. Oxman plagiarized multiple paragraphs of her 2010 doctoral dissertation, Business Insider found, including at least one passage directly lifted...

There’s an old Jewish joke that goes like this. A Jewish man with a terrible stuttering problem tells his friend that he’s going to apply for a job as a radio announcer, of all things. After the job interview is over, his friend asks him if he got the job.

Claudine Gay is a nobody. That’s not really an insult. This writer is a nobody, and not ashamed of it. The world is full of nobodies. Not everyone deserves to be in the history books; not everyone can found a global conglomerate; invent earthshaking inventions; write bestsellers or star in blockbuster films. The vast majority of people can only expect to be decent citizens; earning a living and providing for their families; serving their community as well as they can. And that’s an honorable life. It gets disturbing, however, when someone is so bound and determined to matter in the...

In a striking paradox, pro-meritocracy conservatives and pro-DEI Democrats alike can revel in the schadenfreude of Claudine Gay’s fall from grace—because her antics are just that ridiculous. In a since-deleted post to X, Ronald S. Sullivan Jr., a Harvard law professor, high-profile criminal defense attorney, and former college dean said Gay’s disgraced resignation was… “Karma.” You might recall the name from headlines a few years back—Sullivan once served as a faculty dean for Harvard’s Winthrop House, a position from which he was ousted after he agreed to represent Harvey Weinstein, in large part, due to Gay’s influence. Here’s this, from...

From his time in law school to his failed presidential campaigns, Biden's made it a habit of "borrowing" from others Key Takeaways Joe Biden has plagiarized from speeches, essays, and policy positions throughout his entire life As a student at Syracuse Law School in 1965, Biden plagiarized 5-pages from a law review journal "without quotation or attribution" During his failed 1988 presidential campaign, Biden plagiarized from speeches by British politician Neil Kinnock, Robert Kennedy, and President John F. Kennedy Now, Joe Biden and his 2020 Presidential campaign are at it again – lifting ideas, slogans, and writings to pass off...

The concern about potential dilution of punishments for plagiarism is troubling. It underscores broader worries about ideological shifts impacting academic integrity. Striking a balance between fairness and maintaining the standards of meritocracy is crucial to preserve academia's credibility. The use of strategic weapons to counteract such trends highlights the escalating ideological battles within educational institutions. The outcome will undoubtedly shape the future landscape of academia and its foundational principles.

The problem is much larger than Gay and demands the right go about dismantling institutions like Harvard with whatever means available.News of Harvard President Claudine Gay’s resignation on Tuesday prompted understandable celebration on the right and much-deserved praise for journalists Christopher Rufo, Christopher Brunet, and Aaron Sibarium, who exposed Gay as a serial plagiarist. No doubt, celebration is in order. Gay was of course not only a plagiarist but a Hamas apologist who shrugged off rampant antisemitism on Harvard’s campus in the wake of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israeli civilians. In a shocking congressional hearing last month...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The downfall of Harvard’s president has elevated the threat of unearthing plagiarism, a cardinal sin in academia, as a possible new weapon in conservative attacks on higher education. Claudine Gay’s resignation Tuesday followed weeks of mounting accusations that she lifted language from other scholars in her doctoral dissertation and journal articles. The allegations surfaced amid backlash over her congressional testimony about antisemitism on campus. The plagiarism allegations came not from her academic peers but her political foes, led by conservatives who sought to oust Gay and put her career under intense scrutiny in hopes of finding a...

She took no responsibility for the plagiarism allegations nor the state of campus hatred toward Jews and Israel. Despite the resignation as university president, Ms. Gay will remain a Harvard faculty member. The school’s student newspaper, The Harvard Crimson, first reported the resignation. Ms. Gay’s tenure was just over six months and is the shortest in the 387-year history of the school. Ms. Gay has been accused of plagiarism stemming from her career in academia. According to a report from The Washington Free Beacon, there were six new plagiarism charges against Ms. Gay in a report submitted anonymously to the...

Embattled Harvard University President Claudine Gay has resigned, she announced on Tuesday. "It is with a heavy heart but a deep love for Harvard that I write to share that I will be stepping down as president," she said in a lengthy letter to the school community. "This is not a decision I came to easily. Indeed, it has been difficult beyond words because I have looked forward to working with so many of you to advance the commitment to academic excellence that has propelled this great university across centuries." “But after consultation with members of the Corporation, it has...

Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay has been hit with a bevy of fresh plagiarism charges according to a new exclusive report. Gay first found herself facing controversy after she refused to say if calls for genocide against Jews violated her school's code of conduct. The now-former president of the University of Pennsylvania similarly waffled and ended up resigning. Harvard stood by Gay, though, giving her a vote of confidence. Shortly after that, multiple examples of plagiarism committed by Gay emerged, but again, Harvard stood by her, putting out a ridiculous response to the scandal. Now, things are going from bad...

A member of Harvard’s student Honor Council called for the resignation of university president Claudine Gay over her ongoing plagiarism scandal — accusing the school’s governing body of having one standard for the embattled administrator and another for the student body. “Gay’s getting off easy,” the student, who sits on the council tasked with deciding sanctions for classmates caught plagiarizing, wrote in a letter published anonymously in the Harvard Crimson Sunday. “Let’s compare the treatment of Harvard undergraduates suspected of plagiarism with that of their president,” they wrote. “When students — my classmates, peers, and friends — appear before the...

Harvard President Claudine Gay is planning to travel to Asia in March for her first international trip since assuming office in July, she said in an interview with The Crimson earlier this month. Get the rest of the story here.

We already know that Claudine Gay has “borrowed without attribution” works from other scholars (i.e., she plagiarized). However, it appears that she may have done more than merely plagiarize. There’s a distinct (although currently unproven) possibility that she faked the data behind her purported studies.With Gay’s problems of…attribution in the news, people have gone back to look at her writing. This isn’t hard because, while publish or perish used to be the rule for surviving in academia, if you’re a woke black “scholar,” that rule no longer applies.What those analyzing Gay’s small body of work—a ridiculously small output for the...

Harvard University has come under fire amid revelations it sought to thwart The Post’s investigation of Claudine Gay’s alleged plagiarism and cleared her of such accusations before even conducting an investigation. Rep. Jim Banks, (R-Ind.) who sits on the House Education and the Workforce Committee, which has been scrutinizing the Ivy League school, called the aggressive attempt to suppress The Post’s investigation “shameful.” “Harvard has been terrified of losing donations and taxpayer funding since they were exposed for harboring antisemitism,” he told The Post. “Claudine Gay claimed to support free speech and truthful inquiry in her congressional testimony, but now...

“Why is Harvard giving Claudine Gay ‘plagiarism privilege’?” asked the New York Post editorial board Saturday. It must be a rhetorical question. Professor Carol Swain, who was ripped off by Gay and complains “I feel like her whole research agenda, her whole career, was based on my work,” has some idea. “A white male would probably already be gone,” Swain, a black woman herself, told journalist Christopher Rufo recently.

Harvard cleared its president Claudine Gay of plagiarism before it even investigated whether her academic work was copied, The Post reveals today. In a threatening legal letter to The Post in late October, the college called allegations that she lifted other academics’ work “demonstrably false,” and said all her works were “cited and properly credited.” Days later Gay herself asked for an investigation and Harvard tore up its own rules to ask outside experts to review her work, saying it had to avoid a conflict of interest. And the experts then found she did need to make multiple corrections to...

Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: Obama lobbied to keep Claudine Gay as Harvard pres despite antisemitism, plagiarism allegations