Claudine Gay and Harvard’s board wants everyone to know that they are committed to free speech. Their allies have circled the wagons around Gay’s claim that calls for violence against Jews and intimidation tactics fell under the penumbra of the First Amendment, while Gay and Harvard shut down an event shortly afterward that featured a conservative who had criticized Gay.
Gay’s Harvard believed in free speech so much, in fact, that they responded to a New York Post inquiry about Gay’s alleged plagiarism by siccing their “defamation counsel” on the newspaper. The NYP revealed this episode last night, in which the newspaper had evidence in October of potential plagiarism. They contacted Harvard for comment before publication, citing more than two dozen demonstrable irregularities in Gay’s ‘scholarship,’ and asked the university to respond:
The Post contacted the…
