Professor Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has been following the saga of former Harvard President Claudine Gay.
His recent Substack column addresses what should be next to salvage American institutions of higher education from the chains of race-based, woke policies.
He also noted that her resignation can be considered a victory for the alternative media.
…[This is a success for the alternative media. It’s an exaggeration to say, as an acquaintance emailed, that “Chris Rufo decapitated Harvard.” But it’s not entirely an exaggeration. Note that back before Twitter became X its “trust and safety” apparatus would probably have throttled Rufo’s messages about Gay’s plagiarism, and indeed many other remarks about Hamas. But even though the top-shelf traditional media were slow to turn on Harvard and Gay, the alt-media and social media were relentless and now they matter a lot. And even after Gay’s departure, satire site The Babylon Bee was relentless:https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1742301473633976330?ref_src=twsrc%5EtfwThe people who head our institutions are mostly mediocre and sometimes wicked; this is why they try to stifle criticism, and especially mockery. Under the guise of fighting “misinformation” they’ve been doing that for the past several years; it’s not working, really.Back when my blog was new and interesting (which is to say about 20 years ago) reporters interviewing me about the then-new blogosphere always wanted to know how many “scalps” we’d taken. To me the role of a blog was introducing people to new ideas, new platforms, and new people. To them, the measure of media power was about getting people fired.Well, here we are.
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