Claudine Gay’s obnoxious, self-flattering resignation is just the start — Harvard needs to answer what took so long

It’s hardly a shock that Claudine Gay finally walked the plank at Harvard.

In a head-spinning series of developments, she had been exposed as indifferent to antisemitism, an academic fraud and a symbol of everything wrong with American higher education. 

Because there was no legitimate case for keeping her on the job, her departure was only a matter of time.

I predicted the end would come during the Christmas-New Year break, when the campus is quiet and most students and faculty are away. 

Yet the Tuesday announcement that she is “resigning” is far from satisfactory and cannot be the final word.