Carol Swain: ‘Academic Standards Have Been Compromised’

Professor and writer Carol Swain is speaking out on the crisis of antisemitism, dishonesty, and lowered standards in American universities.

Swain, an outspoken critic of leftist ideology in education, has a new book focusing on the scandals that ousted former Harvard University president Claudine Gay and how Gay’s behavior is emblematic of a much larger problem.

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On March 24, Swain tweeted, “Once a beacon of academic excellence, Harvard now faces backlash over campus antisemitism and allegations of plagiarism involving a former university president.”

She has witnessed the academic degeneration firsthand. “As someone who has taught at Princeton, Duke, and Vanderbilt, I’ve seen firsthand how academic standards have been compromised. I was even a victim of plagiarism myself. In my book, The Gay Affair, Harvard,

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