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Fred Poulin's avatar

Even though you made me look up the meaning of "Overton window," I think this is the best writing I have seen from the Salient so far.

It was a complete embarrassment to watch President Gay choke and sputter over any words that might actually commit Harvard to condemning antisemitism. She needs to resign.

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Chevalier Mal Fet's avatar

This is lovely and sincere, but somehow I feel like it falls short. It’s as though there has been an outbreak of bubonic plague on campus, and all we can manage to say is that we need to wash our hands more. This type of antisemitism is a medieval scourge. Harvard has given birth to a fully grown monstrosity. We need to ask and answer some very difficult questions: how could this happen here, at Harvard of all places? And are these young students morally lost forever? We already know that their professors are.

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