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Claudine Gay
January 10, 2024
Timothy Noah
Bill Ackman’s Plagiarism Hypocrisy Is Stratospheric
I read the hedge fund billionaire’s tweets so you don’t have to.
January 2, 2024
Timothy Noah
Claudine Gay’s Resignation Shines a Light on the Academic Hypocrisies of Elite Universities
Harvard was right to shield its president from irate donors—but wrong to insinuate that the donors eventually won.
December 18, 2023
Michael Bérubé
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Jennifer Ruth
It’s Not the University President’s Job to Police Free Speech
A manufactured controversy forced Elizabeth Magill to resign from Penn and continues to hound Harvard’s Claudine Gay. Here’s how it could have been avoided.
December 13, 2023
Paul Waldman
Liz Magill Was Practice. The Right Really Wants to Get Claudine Gay.
These mostly bogus plagiarism charges are the latest blunt weapon in the right’s war on universities as poisoners of young people’s minds.
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