Why is Harvard giving Claudine Gay ‘plagiarism privilege’?

Boy, are the powers-that-be at Harvard invested in protecting President Claudine Gay — not just over her telling fumbles on antisemitism, but on multiple indications of plagiarism in her (scant) published academic work.

Concerns that Harvard not only kept secret, but deployed high-powered attorneys to try to quash.

The Post began investigating Gay’s potential plagiarism weeks before her disastrous Dec. 5 House testimony on antisemitism, reaching out to Harvard Oct. 24 for comment on dozens of suspect passages.

The school’s response was to stall for days, then threaten us: The...