submarine, he started floating accusations that she plagiarized academic work. those went from rufo s blog to the pages of conservative publications to mainstream publications like the new york times. harvard itself never accused gay of plagiarism but it did investigate the allegations and found that they are, at worst, instances of inadequate citation. they are not what the word plagiarism might make you think. claudine gay was not stealing anyone s ideas nor where she presenting other people s ideas as her own. harvard didn t conclude that any issues in her academic citations amounted to misconduct. that would normally be the end of it. here is possibly the ugliest part of this whole chapter. at americas universities, academics and speech and learning are not primary, money is. bill ackman is an academic billionaire hedge fund manager at a harvard alum. administrated calling for claudine gay s resignation and threatening to pull his donations from the university over her response to