The trials and tribulations of Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University who resigned this week after being exposed as both a Jew-hatred apologist and a serial plagiarist, perfectly expose America’s cultural divide.
To the Right, she is the embodiment of the woke ideology and the “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” (DEI) regime: a ruthless careerist who knifed fellow black scholars in the back during her institutional ladder-climbing, a middling intellectual who has never advanced meaningful scholarship and has never even published a book under her name, and someone who—a la Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson—was transparently picked solely due to checking some identity boxes.
To the Left, she is a martyr par excellence: a black woman in a position of high prominence who came under withering assault from hidebound racists, and whose…
