If Harvard Doesn’t Want Congress to Ask It Questions, It Can Stop Taking Money from Congress

At CNN, Stephen Collinson reluctantly reports on the Claudine Gay situation at Harvard. I write “reluctantly,” because, upon reading it, it becomes clear that Collinson has been told both to relate the details of the story and to convey to his audience that the whole thing is really about the boundless treachery of the Republican Party. “Elite academia,” Collinson explains at the beginning, “appears to be playing directly into the hands of ex-President Donald Trump’s populist Republicans.” And from there, that’s his pattern. Fact, followed by dismissal, followed by fact, followed by dismissal, and...