{"id":2127423,"date":"2023-12-17T13:21:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T18:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-carol-swain-on-plagiarism-and-anti-semitism-at-harvard\/"},"modified":"2023-12-17T13:24:42","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T18:24:42","slug":"dr-carol-swain-on-plagiarism-and-anti-semitism-at-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dr-carol-swain-on-plagiarism-and-anti-semitism-at-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Carol Swain on Harvard&#8217;s Plagiarism and Anti-Semitism"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdr-carol-swain-on-plagiarism-and-anti-semitism-at-harvard%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2127423&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Harvard Scandal: A Double Standard for Anti-Semitism and Plagiarism<\/h2>\n<p><i>The \u2064following is a transcript \u2063of\u2064 a\u2064 recent interview between Daily \u200dWire Editor-in-Chief John\u200c Bickley\u2063 and Dr. Carol \u200dSwain on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/anti-semitism-plagiarism-harvard-s-dual-crisis-saturday-extra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saturday Extra edition of\u200b Morning Wire<\/a>.\u200d Dr. \u2062Swain\u2062 addresses \u200bthe dual\u2064 scandals facing Harvard and\u2062 other Ivy League\u2062 schools \u2014 a double standard for anti-Semitism and academic plagiarism.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b> Joining us \u200cto discuss \u2062the Harvard \u2064presidential \u200bscandal is \u200dDr. Carol Swain, Senior Fellow for the Institute for Faith and\u2062 Culture. Dr. \u200dSwain, you were a tenured professor in the Ivy League \u2063\u2013 at Princeton \u2013 and \u200byou\u2019ve been very outspoken on this situation, as your\u2062 own work appears to\u200d have been plagiarized. First, what do you make \u200cof \u200bthe Harvard board unanimously deciding to support Claudine \u200dGay \u200cafter her congressional \u200btestimony and now allegations of plagiarism?<\/p>\n<p><b>CAROL:<\/b> I see\u200b it as a low point for American higher education that Harvard University would try to\u2064 redefine plagiarism so that it can retain its first ever black president \u2013 who\u200c was clearly promoted based on diversity, equity,\u2064 and inclusion standards. And I would\u2063 argue that\u2062 her record,\u200d even if she had not \u2062plagiarized her articles, would \u200dnot normally have \u200csupported tenure in the Ivy League. And I say this as someone who\u200b was \u2062tenured early at Princeton, and \u200bthe standard in the Ivy\u2062 League used to be that you had to have a major path-breaking publication. And the book that she lifted a\u200b couple of passages from, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Black-Faces-Interests-Representation-Americans\/dp\/0761834079\/?_encoding=UTF8&#038;pd_rd_w=OFkGr&#038;content-id=amzn1.sym.cf86ec3a-68a6-43e9-8115-04171136930a&#038;pf_rd_p=cf86ec3a-68a6-43e9-8115-04171136930a&#038;pf_rd_r=139-7687216-7118362&#038;pd_rd_wg=86Wyn&#038;pd_rd_r=a7c579f0-c9a7-481d-bffc-501d443632ea&#038;ref_=aufs_ap_sc_dsk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Faces, Black Interests: The Representation of\u200c African Americans in Congress<\/a>,\u201d\u2062 was a book\u2062 that won three national prizes, including the\u200d highest prize \u2062a political scientist can win. \u2063It was cited by\u2062 many law court decisions, and the U. S. Supreme Court, and it\u200d was\u2064 considered the \u2062seminal work in the area of minority representation and representation\u200c in Congress. And so that\u2019s the book that she \u200dreally lifted passages that were not\u2064 that significant, but her entire research agenda was on minority representation on Congress. And even though she has \u200done cite of me in her bibliography,\u2063 normally, when you draw on the research of a leading scholar in a particular area, you have \u2064to\u2063 engage that work. You\u200c have to let \u200dpeople \u200cknow why you\u2019re asking the questions that you are. She didn\u2019t do \u200dthat. She did not engage\u200b my work either to refute it, \u2064to affirm\u200b it, \u200dor\u200b to acknowledge it. And\u200d I would argue that that harmed me in my career \u2013 even though\u200c I wasn\u2019t aware this was\u2062 taking place\u200d \u2013 \u2064because in academia, your statute depends on how \u200bmany times you are cited. If\u200d someone is in the area \u2063where \u200dyou are \u2062the path breaker, and \u2064they are not engaging with your ideas, then\u200b it \u200chas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/young-americans-must-lead-the-way-in-opposing-additional-covid-shutdowns\/\" title=\"Young Americans Must Lead The Way In Opposing Additional COVID Shutdowns\">long-term consequences<\/a>. And so her work, in \u2062my\u2063 opinion, is derivative of mine. I believe she \u200bgot away with it because I was falling out of\u2064 favor in academia, because \u200cI was becoming increasingly conservative.<\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b> Now \u200dyou are \u2062one \u2063of several professors whose work was\u2062 improperly used \u2063in Gay\u2019s writings,\u200b allegedly. University of Pittsburgh\u2019s George Reid Andrews has acknowledged that Gay \u201cdid borrow\u2062 a few of my phrases\u201d \u2013 as did University of Chicago \u200beconomist Jens Ludwig. Both said they didn\u2019t think it\u2063 really\u2064 rose to the\u200d level of plagiarism, but Anne Williamson, of Miami \u200bUniversity, Ohio, said \u201cIt \u200ddoes look like plagiarism to me,\u201d and said she was \u200bactually \u201cshocked\u201d by the\u2062 passages Gay lifted from her work. Have you reviewed \u200cthese passages under question?<\/p>\n<p><b>CAROL:<\/b> I\u2019ve looked at the sections from my own work and \u200cthe articles that have pulled \u2062out passages \u2064in other people\u2019s work side by side, and I would argue that it is plagiarism, and\u200b that a journalist would\u200c lose their \u200cjob over it. And it\u2019s particularly troubling because it wasn\u2019t just her dissertation \u2013 it\u2064 also included the published works that she presented for tenure. And I would encourage \u2063people to look at that \u2062senior thesis she \u2063wrote at Stanford. \u200cIt\u2064 won a prize \u200b\u2014 \u2064her dissertation won a prize. Was the senior thesis plagiarized? \u2063That\u2019s where they need to look \u2064next.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/podcasts\/morning-wire\/anti-semitism-plagiarism-harvard-s-dual-crisis-saturday-extra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LISTEN: Morning Wire Saturday \u2062Extra\u2062 \u2014\u2064 \u201cAnti-Semitism \u2062&#038; Plagiarism: Harvard\u2019s Dual\u200c Crisis\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b> \u2062The New York\u2062 Post is\u2062 now reporting that\u2063 Harvard actually threatened them legally\u2062 when a reporter\u200d reached\u2062 out about these allegations back in\u2063 October \u2013 which is surprising. Harvard\u200c has issued a statement\u2064 addressing, briefly, the plagiarism charges.\u2064 They\u200d said they did their own review and did find some instances that \u2063were problematic, and are now requesting\u2063 four corrections in two articles. Is that \u2064an adequate response?<\/p>\n<p><b>CAROL:<\/b> \u2063 It\u2019s\u2064 horrible. What they should\u200c do is, if they want to\u200c keep\u2063 her on their faculty, \u200dcertainly she should make those corrections, but normally you don\u2019t get a do over in life. Most people are held accountable. We all \u2062make mistakes. She made a mistake, and I believe that if they \u2062want to keep her on\u200c the faculty \u2063of \u2062Harvard,\u200d okay, just give her mercy, allow her to make the corrections, but she\u2062 should not\u2062 be the president of Harvard University with that \u200drecord of plagiarism \u2063\u2014 \u200dand the equity that we associate with Neo-Marxism and DEI\u2063 is like\u2064 affirmative \u2063action on steroids, and that is what has advanced her, and \u2063I believe what is keeping her in her position is that Harvard doesn\u2019t want \u200cto embarrass itself by firing \u200cits first\u200b ever black president. \u2062So \u2062they would \u200crather hurt their brand than \u2064to get rid\u2064 of \u200ba \u200dwoman\u2064 that should be fired\u200c \u2013 and \u2063she should have been fired already.<\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b> \u200dSome people\u2062 say refusing to\u200b remove Gay was Harvard\u2019s way of thumbing their \u200cnose\u2062 at\u2063 the Supreme Court\u2019s recent affirmative\u200d action decision against Harvard.\u2062 What do you think about that?<\/p>\n<p><b>CAROL:<\/b> Absolutely, and I was born in 1954, the \u2063year of\u2063 the Brown vs. Board school desegregation case, where the Supreme\u200d Court ordered\u200c integration\u2063 of public education in all deliberate\u200b speed. \u200cAnd\u200c the response, in many places, was massive resistance. And they resisted up until\u200c the \u2063late 1960s in Bedford County, \u200dVirginia, where \u200dI went to school. And so\u200b I see the same thing happening, is\u200c that just like the elites resisted the Brown vs. Board of Education\u200d desegregation\u200b case, the elites\u2062 at these institutions\u2063 have decided that they\u2019re going to \u200cresist \u200dthe Supreme Court\u2019s decision \u200dto end race-based discrimination. And so\u200b I believe \u200dthat we need to hold them accountable \u2013 that white people, Asian people, Christians, any group\u2064 that\u2019s being disfavored in violation \u200cof the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and \u2064the\u2064 Equal Protection \u200bClause, \u200bthey \u200dneed \u2062to document what is taking place, they need to file lawsuits,\u200c and we need to shut it down. It shouldn\u2019t take 10 \u200cyears or 20\u2064 years of them \u2062continuing to \u2062discriminate against \u2064people or finding proxies to\u2063 continue doing what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b> Now, one question about \u2064the other issue at hand \u2063here. the double standard for anti-Semitism on\u2062 campus. Is there a double standard? If the protests and chants against Jews \u2064and\u200d Israel were taking place against blacks or even LGBT people, would Harvard and \u2062some of these\u2063 other Ivy League schools have pointed \u2062to \u2064\u201ccontext\u201d \u200das necessary to determine whether or not\u2064 that was problematic?<\/p>\n<p><b>CAROL:<\/b> If the \u2063Jewish students \u200dwere\u2064 black,\u200d it wouldn\u2019t just be Harvard and the \u2063Ivy \u200cleague, but all of \u200dAmerica, every institution \u2013 the Biden \u2063administration, every government would have shut \u200bit down immediately. The police would have shut \u200bit \u200ddown if it had been black students\u200b being harassed and being threatened\u2063 by white students. And that \u200cis the\u200d double standard. I, \u200cmyself, I\u2019m \u200cjust shocked at\u200d how Jewish Americans are \u2062being treated in America\u2063 today\u2064 and the hatred towards Israel. And to me, \u200bif there\u2019s a \u2064silver lining, it is that the Jewish people \u200don the college campuses, some of them\u2064 are awakening to the fact \u2064that the \u200dprogressives are not their friends.<\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b> You\u2019ve been an advocate for viewpoint \u200cdiversity in higher education \u2013 in fact \u200byou just published a\u2063 book that addresses this issue directly \u2013 \u201cThe\u200c Adversity of Diversity: How the Supreme\u200c Court\u2019s Decision to Remove Race from \u200bCollege Admissions Criteria Will Doom Diversity Programs.\u201d What are \u200dyour thoughts\u2063 on how having more representation across the political \u200cspectrum could have helped Harvard avoid this controversy?<\/p>\n<p><b>CAROL:<\/b> I can tell\u2064 you \u200dthat I\u2019m an advocate of \u2063education. \u200bI spent 28 \u2063years in academia. I took early retirement from Vanderbilt in 2017, pretty much in the heat \u2063of \u2062a controversy because of an opinion piece that I\u2064 published criticizing Islam created a firestorm, and\u2063 I left academia.\u200d But I saw the changes\u2062 taking place, and\u2064 it \u2064started right after President Obama\u2063 was elected. I saw\u200b the Critical Race Theory that had been mostly confined to\u200c certain departments\u2062 of the university that it started \u2062rapidly infecting every \u200cdepartment. And I saw \u2063changes that\u200d made academia very\u2062 uncomfortable for people like me. And I \u2064saw the decline of education to the \u200cpoint that they \u200bdid \u2062not\u200b even\u2063 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/completely-absent-arizona-law-enforcement-leaders-slam-mark-kelly\/\" title=\"\u2018Completely Absent\u2019: Arizona Law Enforcement Leaders Slam Mark Kelly\">give lip service<\/a> to universities being marketplaces of ideas where you would have divergent voices allowed to speak. All of\u2064 that started to die \u2063at American colleges and universities, and as a consequence, these institutions\u200c have allowed themselves to\u200c become indoctrination centers. And if we want to \u200deducate\u200b young\u200b people,\u200b if we want strong leaders, if we want people that are qualified to take positions of responsibility in society, we have to\u200c expose \u200cthem to\u2063 divergent \u200bideas, or you can not develop\u200c critical thinking skills unless you are sort of made uncomfortable, unless you hear \u2062new ideas. That\u2019s not taking place in the indoctrination centers \u2062we have \u2064today. And I also know that if you are conservative on \u2063a university campus,\u200d if you are deeply orthodox \u2013 whether it\u2019s Christian, Jewish \u2013 it\u2019s set up in \u200bsuch a way \u2064that if\u2063 you\u2063 don\u2019t\u2063 fit in, \u2063the universities are very uncomfortable places. There are students who \u200dlive in fear. \u200bThere\u2019s no way you\u2019re going to get a quality education if you\u2019re so afraid you\u2019re going to offend someone \u200dand you can\u2019t \u200bask \u200bquestions. That\u2019s\u2063 not \u200cwhat higher education\u2063 should be about. And so I\u200b believe that we have\u2063 to \u2062make changes. And \u200bI also believe\u200d that changes are already happening. I\u2019ve spoken this year\u200b at several universities, and \u200cI\u2064 believe that universities are realizing \u2064that the value of the\u2062 product \u2064that they\u2019re producing has declined \u200cto the point \u200dthat \u200dmany young \u200cpeople are deciding that they don\u2019t necessarily need \u2063or want a college education. And I have met\u2063 parents who\u200d are \u2063very wealthy and grandparents who are telling me that\u2063 the money they\u200c saved \u2064up for their offspring\u2019s\u200d education, that they\u2019re giving \u2064them an option:\u200d they can take the money and start a business, or they \u2062can go to college. And so, universities, higher education, these institutions are suffering \u2062because, \u2063right now, they\u2019re not offering a quality product.<\/p>\n<p><b>JOHN:<\/b> There\u2019s\u2019 no doubt\u2064 that the perception of universities has\u2062 been shifting dramatically in recent years. Dr.\u2062 Swain, \u200dthank\u2064 you\u2064 for \u2062coming on.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CAROL:<\/strong> Thank you.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> What impact might a lack of diversity of thought have had on the Harvard plagiarism and \u200banti-Semitism scandals?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  \u2064 Off.<\/p>\n<p>If Harvard \u2064had embraced true diversity\u2063 of\u200d thought, they might have had individuals with differing viewpoints who could have raised\u200c concerns about\u200d plagiarism \u200dand anti-Semitism. With a broader \u200drepresentation across the \u2063political spectrum, there would have been a better chance of\u2064 catching\u200c these\u2064 issues before they escalated\u200c to such a scandalous \u200dlevel.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, \u200cHarvard has\u2064 chosen to prioritize diversity only \u200bin terms of \u2063race \u2063and ethnicity, while disregarding \u2064diversity of ideas. This narrow approach has allowed for \u200da double standard to flourish, where plagiarism is\u2064 downplayed and\u2062 anti-Semitism is \u2063ignored.<\/p>\n<p>It is \u2062concerning to see\u2062 the \u2062treatment of Jewish\u2064 students on campus and the hatred towards Israel go unchecked. If \u200dthese acts were directed towards any other marginalized group, immediate action\u200b would be taken to condemn and stop it.\u200d The double standard that\u200d exists is both alarming and deeply \u2062troubling.<\/p>\n<p>I believe that we need to\u200d hold institutions accountable for their \u200cactions and demand equality for all. Whether\u200d it is\u2064 through lawsuits or other means, it\u2064 is imperative that we expose and \u200dchallenge\u2063 the discrimination that is occurring in violation of the Civil \u200cRights Act \u2063and \u2062the Equal Protection Clause.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who has experienced the changing landscape \u200bof academia firsthand, I am a strong advocate for\u2062 viewpoint diversity. It is \u2063crucial\u2064 that \u200buniversities once again \u200bbecome marketplaces of ideas,\u2063 where a\u200b range of perspectives are welcomed and\u200d encouraged. \u200cThis would create an environment where critical issues like \u200bplagiarism and anti-Semitism could be addressed \u200cbefore they become major scandals.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, the Harvard scandal is indicative of a\u2063 double standard that exists within higher\u2063 education. Both plagiarism \u200band anti-Semitism are being treated with leniency, and it is clear that a narrow focus on diversity has contributed to this.\u200b It is time for\u2062 institutions like Harvard \u2062to reevaluate their priorities and \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/winsome-sears-proposes-starting-the-youre-not-black-enough-caucus-after-gop-delegate-is-barred-from-black-caucus\/\" title=\"Winsome Sears Proposes Starting The \u2018You\u2019re Not Black Enough\u2019 Caucus After GOP Delegate Is Barred From Black Caucus\">embrace true diversity<\/a> of thought if they are to\u200d maintain their integrity and provide a truly inclusive education for all students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The transcript is from an interview between John Bickley and Dr. Carol Swain on Morning Wire&#8217;s Saturday Extra. 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