Claudine Gay has resigned as president of Harvard University, though she will keep her job as a faculty member in the political science department—and her $900,000 a year salary. That's something of an achievement, given that her misdeeds were academic in nature: Gay was caught plagiarizing numerous passages from other scholars.
But in some corners of the media, the fact she committed plagiarism matters much less than the reality that it was conservative writers who caught her. The Washington Free Beacon's Aaron Sibarium (a reporter at a right-leaning news website) performed the lion's share of the digging; Christopher Brunet (a conservative writer), Christopher Rufo (a conservative writer and activist), and Phil Magness (a libertarian economic historian) also made important contributions. Astonishingly, some mainstream standards-keepers have decided that the ideologies of the accusers have essentially discredited the accusations.
