“Our sense—and recent events have only reinforced it—is that Claudine Gay is only the symptom of a deeper rot, both at Harvard and across higher education more generally.”
“Our sense”? This is the definition of obvious, no? Has been for quite a long time now.
I’m disturbed at the quick victory laps being taken while Gay retains her $900K s…
“Our sense—and recent events have only reinforced it—is that Claudine Gay is only the symptom of a deeper rot, both at Harvard and across higher education more generally.”
“Our sense”? This is the definition of obvious, no? Has been for quite a long time now.
I’m disturbed at the quick victory laps being taken while Gay retains her $900K salary and just slides into another position at Harvard.
And I’m disturbed at how much Rufo seems to be making this about how fabulous he is (a real danger with him, I think), and how half of this piece focuses on one journalist involved. On the one hand, I think it’s valuable, in that we need more smart people going into journalism, jazzed at the prospect of doing important investigative work. On the other hand, we don’t want journalists who make themselves the story... that is a big part of how journalism originally fell apart, IMO.
As much credit as people like Rufo, Taibbi, Shellenberger, Weiss, et al deserve when it comes to trying to resuscitate journalism in the West, there is a fine line to walk here, and I’m worried that some in the profession aren’t doing a great job at keeping egos and personalities in check... and that this will only hurt the effort. And rebuilding a robust press is such a critical part of saving the West from itself at the moment.
“Our sense—and recent events have only reinforced it—is that Claudine Gay is only the symptom of a deeper rot, both at Harvard and across higher education more generally.”
“Our sense”? This is the definition of obvious, no? Has been for quite a long time now.
I’m disturbed at the quick victory laps being taken while Gay retains her $900K salary and just slides into another position at Harvard.
And I’m disturbed at how much Rufo seems to be making this about how fabulous he is (a real danger with him, I think), and how half of this piece focuses on one journalist involved. On the one hand, I think it’s valuable, in that we need more smart people going into journalism, jazzed at the prospect of doing important investigative work. On the other hand, we don’t want journalists who make themselves the story... that is a big part of how journalism originally fell apart, IMO.
As much credit as people like Rufo, Taibbi, Shellenberger, Weiss, et al deserve when it comes to trying to resuscitate journalism in the West, there is a fine line to walk here, and I’m worried that some in the profession aren’t doing a great job at keeping egos and personalities in check... and that this will only hurt the effort. And rebuilding a robust press is such a critical part of saving the West from itself at the moment.