OPINION - Harvard's Claudine Gay saga shows how the poison of cancel culture has infected US universities
If you wanted to sum up the near parodic state of liberal academia in the US, the response of the then president of Pennsylvania University, Elizabeth McGill, to a question about whether calling for the genocide of Jews violated its rules on harassment, would do the job nicely. “It’s a context-dependent decision, Congresswoman”, she said. This is a lawyer’s answer – and Dr McGill is a
