Firing Harvard's Claudine Gay won't cure the cancer at this elite university

Claudine Gay resigned as president of Harvard University on Tuesday, January 2. Her controversial tenure was a symptom of a major problem at the school that won't be cured by her exit.

Christopher Bedford is the executive editor of The Common Sense Society.

Her first problems began this fall, when large groups of her students erupted in favor Hamas' mass murder and rape of Israelis. Her problems got worse in December, when she doubled down in defense of anti-Jewish hate in testimony before Congress. While the Harvard Corporation stood behind her, donors fled and examples of plagiarism stacked up across her fairly limited academic career. She’s finally gone, replaced by a low-key Jewish professor, but not before she released a statement accusing her critics of racism. She refused to go quietly, and the problems that made her president in the first place won’t go quietly either–nor nearly as easily.