Harvard’s Diversity Hire President Finally Resigns. Is This The Beginning Of The End For DEI?

More than a year ago, in October of 2022, a Substack blogger named Chris Brunet published an article warning Harvard not to name Claudine Gay the president of the university. Here’s what he wrote. “I can’t stress enough how much of a tragedy a Claudine Gay presidency would be — this must not be allowed to come to pass. She will ruin Harvard. She’s an intellectual lightweight (her entire body of critical race theory ‘research’ is flawed and/or fake), a far-far-Left DEI activist, and corrupt as hell.”

You might point out that it’s a little too late for anyone to ruin Harvard. Harvard’s credibility hit an iceberg and sank into the icy depths a long time ago. You cannot destroy that which is already lying in ruins at the bottom of the ocean. But even so, Brunet’s point was disregarded, along with all of his reporting about Claudine Gay’s misconduct. Instead, Harvard announced that Gay, who had never published a book in her life and only had a handful of publications, would become the university’s next president. She formally took over this past summer. But in December, everything began to unravel very quickly. First, Gay told Congress that it’s not clear whether a call for Jewish genocide would violate Harvard’s code of conduct. She said it depends on the circumstances. You can’t condemn genocide in principle, she claimed. It really depends on the context and the nuances of the genocide, you see.