The resignation earlier this month of Claudine Gay as Harvard University’s first black president was welcomed with glee by conservatives in the United States. She was under pressure over plagiarism allegations and her weak performance at a congressional hearing on anti-Semitism on college campuses, but it seems her real crime was being a “diversity hire”. “Here’s a radical idea for the future: select leadership based on *merit.*” So wrote Republican presidential candidate and millionaire businessman, Vivek Ramaswamy, celebrating news of her demise on the social media platform X. The case hit upon several of today’s hot-button issues, but above all...