Hopefully, Harvard Will Hire Somebody Qualified Now
Harvard University is the oldest college in America, having begun in 1636. If memory serves me correctly (I’m too lazy to look it up), the first president of Harvard had the Old Testament read to him every morning in Hebrew, the New Testament read to him every afternoon in Greek, and he would comment upon them in Latin. If Harvard had that kind of president now, it would probably still be a good school.
Instead, with nobody especially looking, they made a DEI hire, employing an utterly unqualified black woman plagiarist because, well, that’s what the Left does now. Her incompetence and immoral degeneracy were exposed in Congressional hearings (one of the very few things Congress did right in 2023). Harvard never expected that. But the stuff in the toilet stinks, folks, and that stink can only be hidden for so long. Harvard got caught, is being humiliated, and has a great big egg on its face. It serves the college right. Politics is not education, and Harvard should be in the business of educating students, not playing DEI politics.
Here’s hoping Harvard will do the right thing and hire a new president on the basis of merit, not left-wing politically-correct dogma. But only time will tell if America academia will ever swing back to doing its job. Maybe this Harvard fiasco will help.