When Harvard and Yale Want To, They Act With Alacrity

In the last decade, top officials at Harvard and Yale exploited accusations of systemic racism in the country and at their institutions to remake scholarship and teaching at their universities. Yet recently they have dodged and dithered in the face of well-documented charges of antisemitism, racial discrimination, censorship, viewpoint homogeneity, and politicized curricula. This suggests that administrators and faculty at Harvard and Yale doubt that such ailments are ailments or, if ailments, that they impair education, or, if ailments that impair education, justify risking their comfort and...