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...welcome to Berry and Pierce’s home; as the Curator of Lepidoptera in Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, Pierce’s job is to know moths and butterflies. Across the hall hangs an eBay triumph of which Berry is particularly proud: a framed letter written by British evolutionary theorist Alfred Russel Wallace, whose work preceded Darwin’s but has largely gone unnoticed...
...deeply concerned with President Faust’s recent letter in which she boasted of her own leadership and the great strides that she has made to promote diversity. I applaud her efforts—they have resulted in several impressive gains. However, President Faust mentions only “women and minorities” as her focus for diversity. She naively assumes that more females and minorities will automatically guarantee different ideologies in the classroom. This is trickle-down diversity, and it does not work...
President Faust’s letter references Harvard’s 2005 task force that conducted two comprehensive surveys of diversity. The conclusions of that research focused exclusively on race and gender. Harvard spent $50 million on this task force. However, not a dime has ever been authorized to study Harvard’s disparate inequity in political ideology...
...traveling on a false passport and living under other people’s names. This isn’t hard to arrange. It is irremediable. I don’t know how he made his decisions in those days. The postcards were laconic. He wrote only one letter, to my mother, the winter that girl died.” This exact wording is repeated several times, presented side by side with a reproduction of the one letter her brother wrote, as if by telling this narrative over and over, Carson hopes to come to an understanding of her brother?...
Like a scarlet letter, an accusation of plagiarism is perhaps the most devastating fate that can befall a man or woman of letters. Doris Kearns Goodwin, for instance, will never quite enjoy the same reputation she had before scandal erupted over an unquoted passage in “The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys;” Stephen E. Ambrose, who copied from no fewer than twelve sources over the course of writing seven books, may as well be known as academia’s Samuel Mudd...