Inside Harvard s Discrimination Machine
Gail Heriot, a law professor who sits on the United States Commission on Civil Rights, characterized Harvard s practice of making candidates swear fealty to DEI as a form of ideological conditioning. At other universities, faculty candidates who respond to such inquiries by saying that they treat all individuals equally regardless of race, ethnicity, or sex get excluded from consideration, she said. The same is probably in store for any job candidates at Harvard who dissent from the campus orthodoxy on this issue.
That’s my good friend Gail Heriot, in case you’re wondering.
I’ve never liked Harvard. I didn’t apply there as an undergrad (I was a Telluride Scholar at Cornell) and gladly shared my Yalie friends’ disdain for it. Even from my snooty perch, Harvard seemed snooty. Now, they’ve gone all ultra-snooty, but lost the justifications, such as they were, for being so and come up with newer, more ridiculous reasons. Yale has always seemed sounder to me, for no very good reason, I admit, especially given what’s going on there over the last few years. But it’s not just Harvard obviously. I’m sure Yale is every bit as bad and Cornell seems actually worse based on what I’ve read — but who knows. IMHO Harvard and the Harvardians should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law if they’ve violated any criminal statutes, and I don’t see how they wouldn’t have. As far as I know, blatant racial discrimination is still illegal in the USA. But I suspect this is the beginning of a long decline for that storied institution. There are plenty others out there to take up the slack.