Last month I wrote on this blog that Harvard wasn't very much like the University of Pennsylvania. Because, I oh-so-brilliantly said, Harvard has an endowment sufficiently successful to allow them to wait out political tides "with ... a shrug." I have one more thing to say about the subject. Oops. [The fellow above is he for whom the institution is named -- John Harvard -- the son of a butcher in Surrey.] Harvard did not shrug at the attacks on Claudine Gay . I still suspect they were in a financial position in which they could have. Harvard, alas, is not William James' Harvard. In that era they were amassing the cultural capital that they have been expending for much of the time since. Actually, I have the following to say about the subject too. The president of MIT, Sally Kornbluth, needs to make the point, publicly and often, that for some of those who are making the “two down and one to go” noises, this whole thing ...