There are lots of hot takes about the Claudine Gay resignation still appearing at various sites. I’ve read a few this morning and of those I think this one at the NY Times is the worst.
The argument being made here by author Tressie McMillam Cottom is that Gay’s resignation was a shameful moment in Harvard’s history, not because she got caught plagiarizing or because she did a terrible job handling questions during congressional testimony but because too many people bought into “age-old ideas” about merit.
Claudine Gay’s resignation this week as Harvard University’s president marks the end of a shameful chapter for the institution. The debacle’s architects promise to make America’s elite institutions great again. They say they pushed out Dr. Gay and, nearly a month ago, the University of Pennsylvania’s president as a warning to the nation’s cultural…
