Claudine Gay: Meet One of the Scholars Who Exposed Her Serial Plagiarism
What happens when a member of the anointed elite gets knocked off their pedestal?
“Ideology… is an instrument of power; a defense mechanism against information; a pretext for eluding moral constraints in doing or approving evil with a clean conscience; and finally, a way of banning the criterion of experience, that is, of completely eliminating or indefinitely postponing the pragmatic criteria of success and failure.” —Jean-François Revel
In the conversation you’re about to hear, Phil Magness joins me to discuss the Harvard fiasco surrounding Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard, who swiftly fell from grace when she was exposed as a serial plagiarist.
The story began when Claudine Gay refused to condemn genocidal chants on Harvard’s campus, saying it “depends on the context”, consistent with progressives who decry colonial oppression and express hostility towards the privileged and powerful, even if they themselves are privileged and powerful.
Phil Magness is an economic historian and David J. Theroux Chair in Political Economy at the Independent Institute. Part of Phil’s work specializes in studying and exposing the ideological capture of higher ed and unethical behavior in academia, and his work was instrumental in exposing Gay’s history of plagiarism throughout her career. He was also a major figure in exposing Fauci and Francis Collin’s suppression of the Great Barrington Declaration and the censorship of its eminent authors. Phil’s FOIA request brought to light corruption at the highest level, and was a key piece of evidence when Fauci was put on trial.
Phil is a truth seeker and rigorous academic who confronts institutional abuses and cover-ups, despite taking serious heat. We talk about identity politics, the elitist snobbery within academia, and the origins of the antisemetic worldview of the far-left. We also discuss the attacks on those who expose academic rot, and how the defenders of the anointed march in lockstep to preserve their vision.
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