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Claudine Gay herself best stated the issue of her brief presidency of Harvard. When her appointment was announced, she declared…

So long as the implicit-association test is in circulation, the myth of a mostly racist U.S. will live.

The novelist Henry James said that Ralph Waldo Emerson—who was once the country’s beloved essayist-laureate, author of the iconic American…

Her ouster as Harvard president is a chance to reflect on the real value of diversity.

I feel for Claudine Gay. A forced resignation after a brief tenure and under challenging circumstances isn’t something we should…

‘If you’re going to advocate genocide, please do it respectfully.” That’s what I tell my students at the start of…

When I taught physics at Yale in the 1980s and ’90s, my colleagues and I took pride in our position…

This year deserves the dustbin of history. With two exceptions.

What can we do about the corruption of American higher education? Milton Friedman had an idea 20 years ago: Tax…

Harvard’s governing fellows last week decided to stand behind President Claudine Gay despite her disastrous congressional testimony and multiple allegations…