Henry Gondorff (Posing as Mr. Shaw) : If any of you guys want to make a little book in Chicago I’m the guy to see
Mr. Clements: The game is straight poker $100 minimum, table stakes. [Gondorf/Shaw reaches for his wallet in his coat] Ah Mr. Shaw this is a gentleman’s game, we all assume you’re good for your debts.
The Sting 1973
As we are at the home stretch for the Christmas season (10th day of Christmas) I’d like to thank Harvard University in general ad Claudette Gay in particular of highlighting the reason for this season.
As you all know the now ex president of Harvard University got into hot water for her response to the horrible antisemitism on Campus since the Hamas Terror attacks of October seventh. It got so bad on campus that the Hanukkah Menorah on campus had to be hidden away each day after being lighted to prevent it from being vandalized which would cause further bad publicity for the school already rocked by open and proud Jew hatred on campus.
Things were so bad that Gay along with the presidents of MIT and Penn were called before congress to address the issue and in the most incredible public spectacle equivocated when asked if calling for the extermination of Jews was against the school codes both for the group in general
and for Gay in particular
The president of Penn resigned within days but Gay hung on and the Board at Harvard defended her. Even when revelations that Gay had a plagiarism problem and that Harvard had taken aggressive steps to keep said problem quiet she was defended. As recently as four days ago the Harvard Crimson ran an editorial saying that Gay should NOT be made to resign.
A sober-minded assessment of the plagiarism charges indicates that Gay’s behavior constitutes plagiarism, but since the errors do not appear intentional, they do not warrant her resignation.
Because we still have faith in our president as a scholar, because we regard her plagiarism as limited and unintentional, and because we recognize that a stopgap interim president would bring chaos instead of needed stability, we do not believe President Gay should resign.
Harvard Crimson: President Gay Plagiarized, but She Should Stay. For Now.
Note that there is not a word in that piece about her handling of campus antisemitism.
Well Gay has now tendered her resignation and the question remains will the board clean house or will it find an anti-Semite who hasn’t committed plagiarism to take her place? For that we will wait and see (I’m betting on the 2nd choice myself).
But the title of this post is : Harvard and Claudette Gay Highlight the Reason for the Christmas Season so the obvious question is: How do these antisemitism and plagiarism scandals highlight the reason for the Christmas Season?
That’s actually very easy.
James Madison nailed it when he wrote: If men were angels we would need no government, If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.
Harvard is one of the elite universities. It’s pedigree goes back to before the founding of the nation, many of the most powerful people in the history of the American Republic have tread it’s hallowed halls. Even now Senators, congressmen, governors and members of our Supreme Court have attended or been faculty of that fabled university.
Yet it has an honor code, a written honor code because it’s known and understood that mankind is by it’s nature fallen.
And because mankind is fallen and can’t get up on its own, it was necessary for a redeemer, a savior, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world. The one who would save mankind bringing salvation through the forgiveness of their sins
And thus Christ came into the world to die for the sins of the world. It’s was a tough task, so tough that Christ himself asked his father to excuse him from it, yet he did as this father willed.
Harvard’s antisemitism, Gay’s reaction to it along with her plagiarism, and the rush to defend what people knew was wrong highlights the nature of sin, of how ethics go out the window when self interest and agendas are at risk. And while this was a big issue on a grand scale with national implications it’s no different that the man who rationalizes what he knows is wrong at the dinner table or at work.
All of them need a savior and as Linus Van Pelt reminded us:
Linus Van Pelt: And there were in the same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night. And lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, ‘Fear not: for behold, I bring unto you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.’ And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.'” That’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Many of us on the right are pleased that Justice has been at least started at Harvard, that this is a blow to DEI and the ills that have come of it. That the vile venom of antisemitism might be checked at the campus, but in this season let us be more grateful that we know a savior has been born to take away those sins and our own.
Merry 10th Day of Christmas to all.
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