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Claudine Gay on Harvard’s campus in December 2023. (Andrew Lichtenstein via Getty Images)
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By Oliver Wiseman and Bari Weiss
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Why did Claudine Gay step down yesterday as president of Harvard? In a letter announcing the bombshell decision, Gay wrote that it was in “the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual.” 

She also blamed racism: “It has be…

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Oliver Wiseman
Oliver Wiseman is the deputy editor of The Free Press. Previously, he was the executive editor of The Spectator World and a regular contributor to UnHerd, City Journal, the Evening Standard, and a range of other publications.
Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press, host of the podcast Honestly, and editor-in-chief of CBS News. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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