The Right Is Dancing on Claudine Gay’s Grave. But It Was the Center-Left That Did Her In.

At first blush, the fury over Claudine Gay’s departure from the Harvard presidency over complaints about serial plagiarism looks like a classic left-right fracas.

On one side, there were far-right culture-warriors braying about “wokeism” and targeting yet another university. On the other, there were progressives recoiling at the racist tone of the campaign against the school’s first Black president.