Don't Say Claudine Gay

The Harvard president's departure doesn’t fix what’s wrong there or elsewhere: the illiberal takeover of higher education.

The resignation of Claudine Gay, Harvard’s embattled former president, doesn’t end the university’s troubles. Indeed, it doesn’t even end its plagiarism scandal. The Harvard Corporation (the formal name for the board of trustees) still must answer for sweeping the initial plagiarism allegations against Gay under the rug and hiring a law firm to threaten…