Why is Harvard giving Claudine Gay ‘plagiarism privilege’?
NY Post
Boy, are the powers-that-be at Harvard invested in protecting President Claudine Gay — not just over her telling fumbles on antisemitism, but on multiple indications of plagiarism in her (scant) published academic work.
Concerns that Harvard not only kept secret, but deployed high-powered attorneys to try to quash.
The Post began investigating Gay’s potential plagiarism weeks before her disastrous Dec. 5 House testimony on antisemitism, reaching out to Harvard Oct. 24 for comment on dozens of suspect passages.
The school’s response was to stall for days, then threaten us: The first we heard back was an Oct. 27 letter from elite lawyer Thomas Clare of the Virginia firm Clare-Locke — a 15-page missive ID’ing him as defamation counsel for the university and Gay; the document quoted several profs who’d apparently been plagiarized but saw no harm.
That is, Harvard either already had its own investigation going when The Post reached out, or jumped to start one, and pin down “victim” statements downplaying any wrongdoing.
Meanwhile, other reporters were looking at her, too: City Journal’s Chris Rufo at her PhD thesis, the Free Beacon’s Aaron Sibarium at journal articles overlapping with those we checked.
