Harvard President Resigns After Plagiarism Allegations, Campus Antisemitism Backlash

• Harvard President Claudine Gay was manifestly unqualified for the position.
• Gay rose by using DEI as a cudgel to destroy rivals and silence opponents. She engaged in academic fraud through repeated plagiarism and possibly data manipulation. And she permitted rampant Jew-hatred on campus by refusing to consistently enforce the university’s code of conduct. Any one of these would have been sufficient for her to be removed.
• Her removal is an essential first step, but it is not a sufficient solution for the numerous problems that put her in charge. Harvard still has board members who hired someone who was manifestly unqualified. The pernicious DEI bureaucracy remains in place.
• These widespread problems were produced by excessive public subsidy of higher education and an abandonment of the traditional norms that are required for excellence in these institutions.
• Academic standards are not being upheld at Harvard. And the selective enforcement of university rules still facilitates Jew-hatred on campus.

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America Is Hurting but It’s Not for a Lack of Money

• Progressives claim that the top 1% of income-earners continue gobbling up more of the nation’s income while the rest of America falls behind. But that liberal trope is being exposed as tripe.
• An accurate — and honest — analysis shows that the top 1% of income earners have about 8% of the nation’s after-tax income, about the same as in 1960. In fact, that figure has been flat for the six decades between then and now.
• It is not the accumulation of more wealth by fewer people that has caused countless societal ills. People are not looting Foot Locker because they’re starving and need a loaf of bread.
• Such instances of ransacking retailers — especially for luxury goods — are examples of how the primary problems in American society are social and not economic.
• America would do well to remember that although the discipline of economics can help identify social problems and their causes, it can’t solve them. It will take a moral revival in this country to do that.

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Oklahoma Is Just the Latest State Condemning DEI

• Criticism continues to mount against so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion offices on college campuses.
• The latest lawmaker to prohibit the use of taxpayer spending on DEI programs that “grant preferential treatment” based on race, ethnicity, or national origin is Gov. Kevin Stitt (R-OK).
• Stitt recently issued an executive order prohibiting any executive agency, including public colleges, from requiring job applicants to complete a DEI statement or “loyalty oath” to diversity as a condition of applying. Such requirements have been found in job applications at schools around the country, including in Arizona and California.
• Stitt also called for a review of DEI offices across Oklahoma’s state government to make sure the DEI practices do not violate state civil rights laws.
• State legislators across the country should seek to protect civil rights and shut down DEI offices when many return to session in January. Oklahoma’s executive order expands the list of states where lawmakers have done so already to four. More should be on the way.

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