Here’s the story:
Fryer was heavily recruited after his time at the University of Chicago, and ultimately accepted a tenure-track position at Harvard. He quickly established himself as a political outlier through his willingness to ask provocative questions and publish the results, even when they challenged liberal pieties. There’s no apparent partisan agenda, only a genuine search for truth…
Last fall, Fryer returned to Harvard. But he’s been stripped of his named professorship, banned from interacting with graduate students, subjected to constant Title IX surveillance, and demoted to teaching undergraduates. All of which makes it hard not to conclude that Harvard is more concerned with protecting the integrity of its ideological codes—and making an example of a successful black scholar who challenged them—than with the future of black America.
Rob Montz, “Why Did Harvard University Go After One of Its Best Black Professors?” at Quillette (April 15, 2022)
Increasingly, academia in these parts is becoming — not an education in the western classics — but an introduction to a social elite. A black guy who asks too many questions would be implying that he was a smart person, not the sort of “victim” the elite need. Thoughts?