EXCLUSIVE: @RealChrisBrunet and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard's policies on academic integrity.
This is a bombshell. 🧵
First, Gay lifts an entire paragraph nearly verbatim from a paper by Lawrence Bobo and Franklin Gilliam’s, while passing it off as her own paraphrase and language.
This is a direct violation of Harvard's policy: "When you paraphrase, your task is to distill the source’s ideas in your own words. It’s not enough to change a few words here and there and leave the rest; instead, you must completely restate the ideas in the passage in your own words. If your own language is too close to the original, then you are plagiarizing, even if you do provide a citation."
Gay repeats this violation of Harvard's policy throughout the document, again using work from Bobo and Gilliam, as well as passages from Richard Shingles, Susan Howell, and Deborah Fagan, which she reproduces nearly verbatim, without quotation marks.
Second, Gay appears to lift material from scholar Carol Swain. In one passage, summarizing the distinction between "descriptive representation" and "substantive representation," she copies the phrasing and language nearly verbatim from Swain’s book 'Black Faces, Black Interests,' without providing a citation of any kind.
Gay's use of Swain's material is a straightforward violation of the university's rules, which state that one "must give credit to the author of the source material, either by placing the source material in quotation marks and providing a clear citation, or by paraphrasing the source material and providing a clear citation"—neither of which Gay followed.
Later in the paper, Gay also uses identical language to Swain, without adding quotation marks, as required. "Since the 1950s the reelection rate for House members has rarely dipped below 90 percent," reads Swain’s book, which is the same, excepting an added comma, to the language in Gay’s dissertation: "Since the 1950s, the reelection rate for incumbent House members has rarely dipped below 90%."
According to Harvard’s rules, this would be a violation of the policy on "inadequate paraphrase," which requires that verbatim language be placed in quotations.
Third, Gay composes an entire appendix in the dissertation directly taken from Gary King's book, 'A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem.' While she cites King’s book later in the appendix—in fact, King was her dissertation advisor—Gay does not explicitly acknowledge that Appendix B is entirely grounded in King’s concepts and language, instead passing it off as her own original work.
These are flagrant violations of Harvard's plagiarism policy, which states that students who commit plagiarism will suffer "disciplinary action, up to and including requirement to withdraw from the College." The same standard should apply to the university president.
I earned a master's degree from Harvard's night school—not nearly as prestigious as the graduate school—but, if I had committed these kinds of violations, I would have been expelled. As an alumnus, I am calling on Claudine Gay to immediately resign from her position.
Here is the full story, co-authored with @RealChrisBrunet, about Claudine Gay's plagiarism scandal. More reporting tomorrow morning for City Journal. christopherrufo.com/p/is-claudine-…
@realChrisBrunet P.S. I highly recommend that you follow @realChrisBrunet and subscribe to his Substack, which exposes fraud and manipulation in academia: karlstack.com
I have sent repeated emails to President Gay's office and she has not responded. If she does, I will update the story with her comments.
Here's Harvard's guidelines on "what constitutes plagiarism." Our claim is that Gay's dissertation violates Harvard's stated principles on academic integrity. The university set the standard; the university president should be held accountable to it. usingsources.fas.harvard.edu/what-constitut…
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EXCLUSIVE: According to a whistleblower, @LockheedMartin awarded employee bonuses “on the basis of their skin color alone and contrary to documented performance." In one case, the company forced managers to remove 18 whites from the bonus list and replace them with 18 "POC."
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The story begins in December 2022, when executives told the whistleblower that his recommended bonus list had too many white employees on it. A senior executive, now in charge of F-35 engineering, told the whistleblower that his selections needed to "fit in the box."
Immediately afterwards, a human resources manager was more explicit, demanding that the team remove whites from the list and replace them with minorities, admitting that "increasing POC for Comp Adder will result in removing equal count of non-minority."
EXCLUSIVE: @RK_Thorpe and I have obtained internal documents from Harvard revealing that the university deliberately penalizes white men in hiring and would virtually eliminate supposed "oppressor" groups from certain occupations.
Inside Harvard's discrimination machine. 🧵
This is one of Harvard's affirmative action plans, which sets aggressive racial targets, including increasing the number of minorities in certain occupations by nearly 500% and reducing the number of white men across dozens of occupations—which, @MorenoffDan says, is illegal.
Faculty hiring is also engineered to filter out white men. Harvard's official guidebook instructs departments to favor "women and minorities" at each step in the process, telling officials to monitor applicants by race and to move white men to the back of the reading pile.
EXCLUSIVE: Columbia professor Jennifer Manly marched with pro-Hamas encampment leaders and, according to public records, has been a recipient of $100 million in taxpayer funding for CRT-style research, which claims that racism causes Alzheimer's in black people.
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This is Columbia University in April 2024. Jennifer Manly marched with pro-Hamas protestors and stood in a human blockade intending to prevent administrators from dismantling the unauthorized encampments, which shut down classes and was the base for illegal building occupations.
But the real scandal is that Manly has been a recipient of more than $100 million in taxpayer funds for so-called "social determinants of health" research, which posits that racism, sexism, and homophobia cause brain disease in minorities—which critics call pseudoscience.
EXCLUSIVE: @GrossmanHannah and I have obtained logs from the NSA’s secret transgender sex chatroom, in which NSA, CIA, and DIA employees discuss genital castration, artificial vaginas, piss fetishes, sex polycules, and gangbangs—all on government time.
This is insane. 🧵
The NSA maintains a chat system for the "intelligence community" called Intelink. The servers are supposed to be used for government work, but gender activists have hijacked at least two channels—LBTQA and IC_Pride_TWG—to discuss fetishes, kink, and sex, all legitimized as "DEI."
One popular chat topic was male-to-female transgender surgery, which involves surgically removing the penis and turning it into an artificial vagina. These male intelligence agents love the feeling of penetration and of peeing with their pseudo-vaginas.
The Right must be more selective in the people it welcomes into the firmament. Conservatives have been locked out of elite institutions for so long, many will accept any celebrity that signals opposition to the Left—even a common pimp with a social media following.
There is a real danger that the Right becomes a dumping ground where failed celebrities land. While we should welcome high-quality defectors, we must have enough self-confidence to draw boundaries and reject those who simply want to farm the Right for clicks and power.
Two things happening here:
1. The Right's organic institutions have difficulty producing viable elites.
2. The Right's media figures feel pressure to chase the algorithm and a) turn themselves into Catturd-style slop; b) engage with human bait such as Andrew Tate for virality.
The Left is spiritually stuck in 1963. Their entire politics is a reenactment. Boomer libs want to live in an endless loop of the civil rights era, but America has moved on and we do not need to indulge their fantasy of permanent adolescent rebellion.
We've had the Great Society and the Civil Rights Act—which, in fact, led to systematic discrimination on behalf of minorities—for 60 years. We've spent trillions on the Left's social utopia. But they still pretend they're "marching on Washington" with the dispossessed.
These people are incapable of taking responsibility for the regime they have created. They can only imagine themselves in opposition because they have no desire to grapple with the failures of their policies and the reasons for continuing inequalities. It's stupid songs forever.