Coda
As I was putting the finishing touches on this book, Claudine Gay, a respected academic consensus-builder, suddenly resigned from the presidency of Harvard. Appointed less than two hundred days prior, with the expectation that she would lead America’s oldest university for at least a decade, Gay’s tenure was the shortest of the university’s thirty leaders over nearly four hundred years. Gay’s downfall was catalyzed by controversial testimony she made before the US Congress on antisemitism and free speech in academia. Her words, lawyerly and terse, were easy to interpret as unreasonable. Opponents of many types emerged swiftly, surfacing concerns about not just her leadership judgment but even her scholarly integrity, and soon she had to ...
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