I could care less about the future of Harvard and its prestige, or about academia in general.
The angle that has fascinated me is how she managed to ascend to a prestigious position in a relatively short time given her lack of academic contribution compared to her peers. She seemed to compensate with her relational skills (leadership skills as many have said) with an ability to recruit people to pledging allegiance to her and bolster a preferred self-image. Usually people like this take shortcuts, knowledge vamp (https://nathaliemartinekphd.substack.com/p/knowledgevampires) and groom the most powerful person in the group to become a cheerleader. As this person ascends, they use their new status to influence appointments of their supporters into positions of power to sustain protection and deny wrongdoing. This is similar to how bullies thrive only because their enablers support them and the gradual elimination of threats. Playing victim when accused of wrongdoing is a typical move in the covert narcissism playbook.
This is unfortunately a common archetype among those who end up in high status, high influence positions across industries - so many get away with this behaviour.
Misconduct is misconduct. I would like to see the board, the peer reviewers and all other enablers pressured to resign for their contributions.
Nice follow up to your article in Newsweek. Excellent and succinct summary of the problem with the leftist racism of low expectations and people like Ms. Gay. As Orwell might have written in 1984, they are the victims of nothing but their own "wrong thought." Keep up the great work.
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Another excellent piece. I ALMOST decided to read the comments, but I am wearing clean clothes. Is it worth the risk, Adam?
Never read the comments on publication articles. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
This has long been my policy. Thanks for the confirmation.
Excellent article about this scandal!
I could care less about the future of Harvard and its prestige, or about academia in general.
The angle that has fascinated me is how she managed to ascend to a prestigious position in a relatively short time given her lack of academic contribution compared to her peers. She seemed to compensate with her relational skills (leadership skills as many have said) with an ability to recruit people to pledging allegiance to her and bolster a preferred self-image. Usually people like this take shortcuts, knowledge vamp (https://nathaliemartinekphd.substack.com/p/knowledgevampires) and groom the most powerful person in the group to become a cheerleader. As this person ascends, they use their new status to influence appointments of their supporters into positions of power to sustain protection and deny wrongdoing. This is similar to how bullies thrive only because their enablers support them and the gradual elimination of threats. Playing victim when accused of wrongdoing is a typical move in the covert narcissism playbook.
This is unfortunately a common archetype among those who end up in high status, high influence positions across industries - so many get away with this behaviour.
Misconduct is misconduct. I would like to see the board, the peer reviewers and all other enablers pressured to resign for their contributions.
Another outstanding piece; thank you.
Thank you!
Nice follow up to your article in Newsweek. Excellent and succinct summary of the problem with the leftist racism of low expectations and people like Ms. Gay. As Orwell might have written in 1984, they are the victims of nothing but their own "wrong thought." Keep up the great work.
Thank you
The house cleaning has just started. I counted 12 members of the Harvard Corporation, and it's no surprise one of the Pritzker mob is a member.