Embattled Harvard President Claudine Gay will resign from her position Tuesday afternoon due to the immense backlash she’s received over her response to antisemitism on the Harvard campus and her growing plagiarism scandal, according to a report from The Harvard Crimson. Gay’s resignation comes a mere six months and […]
President Biden can only hope that major Democratic donor Penny Pritzker has more success with Ukraine than she’s having at Harvard University. The billionaire Ms. Pritzker, who heads the Harvard Corporation, was recently named to serve in the newly created position of U.S. special representative for Ukraine’s economic recovery, a post whose duties include attracting […]
In case you’ve never heard of Len Blavatnik (more properly, Sir Leonard Valentinovich Blavatnik), he is a Ukrainian-born businessman and a noted philanthropist. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his philanthropy work in 2017. He is also Jewish. When his family emigrated to the United States in 1978, he studied engineering at Columbia […]
We were not dirt poor when I was growing up. But we were not exactly rich, either. A few times, we were barely lucky enough to hang on to the designation of “middle class.” Despite that, and my parents’ deep desire to be seen as ’60s radicals, my mother always held out hope that […]
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