Harvard may assume the forced resignation of its president, Claudine Gay, has finally ended its monthlong scandal over her tenure.
Gay stepped down, remember, amid serious allegations of serial plagiarism—without refuting the charges.
She proved either unable or unwilling to discipline those on her campus who were defiantly antisemitic in speech and action.
But Gay’s removal is not the end of Harvard’s dilemma. Rather, it is the beginning.
In the respective press releases from both Gay and the Harvard Corporation, racial animus was cited as a reason for her removal.
Gay did not even refer to her failure to stop antisemitism on her campus or her own record of blatant plagiarism.
Yet playing the race card reflects poorly on both and for a variety of reasons.
One, Gay’s meager publication record—a mere 11 articles without a single published book of her own—had…
