The Harvard Plan: Part One

On the Media | Dec 17, 2024

Reporter Ilya Marritz, in part one of our collaboration with the Boston Globe, dives into Claudine Gay’s groundbreaking tenure as Harvard’s first Black president. Gay’s appointment began with high hopes in September 2023, but soon devolved into a proxy battleground for American cultural wars — spurring escalating disputes over anti-Semitism and free speech, tarnishing her presidency as a symbol of diversity’s failings.

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