While Claudine Gay’s tenure as Harvard University’s president didn’t come to the immediate and spectacular conclusion it should have after her disastrous Congressional testimony – thanks purely to defensively circling the Ivy League wagons around their Diversity, Empowerment, and Inclusion icon and extreme umbrage at the nerve of conservatives – it did turn out to be a blessing in disguise for advocates of transparency and meritocracy in education at all stages.
The longer Harvard made mewling noises, dug in their heels, and slumped passive-aggressively in non-violent protest against the forces of reason attempting to drag the truth out of them, the more of “the truth” was exposed in the interim. Without those additional weeks of Gay and her school stewing in their own broth, pretentiously swatting off calls for her ouster as well as explanations concerning her thin…
