Harvard is learning an ancient lesson: You reap what you sow. On Thursday, the college announced that applications dropped 5% from last year. This, after early-admission applications fell 17%, to a four-year low. And it’s all a natural, rational response to the series of scandals that exposed Harvard’s leaders as prioritizing woke ideology over excellence, free speech and student safety. The first blows: A wave of campus antisemitism after the Oct. 7 terror attack on Israel, followed by then-President Claudine Gay’s disastrous House hearing in December, where she defended hateful intimidation at anti-Israel protests as “free speech.” Then came the...