Amid accusations of plagiarism and continuing outrage among Harvard’s major donors at her alleged failure to condemn Hamas and defend Israel, Harvard’s president, Claudine Gay, has announced her resignation. Harvard’s secretive board of overseers, known as “the Corporation”, apparently insisted on it. “After consultation with members of the Corporation,” Gay wrote in her resignation letter, “it has become clear that it is in the best interests of Harvard for me to resign so that our community can navigate this moment of extraordinary challenge with a focus on the institution rather than any individual.” Dr Gay’s presidency has been the shortest...