They stand as a warning of how ideology can corrupt and foul once-formidable institutions

I’m no believer in ghosts or spirits, but if I were a member of Harvard’s board of trustees, I would begin to brush up on my Aramaic. It’s rare these days that one bumps into someone fluent in this ancient language, so I advise them to look up the phrase “Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin,” which I can’t help but feel may well appear on their walls over Christmas.

For those of you not up on your biblical studies, I will explain. Scrawled by a ghostly hand on the wall of King Belshazzar’s palace, these are the words Daniel translates for Belshazzar, saying they signify that God has numbered the days of his kingdom and that he has been weighed on the scales and found wanting. It is where we get the expression: “the writing is on the wall.”

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Following their latest disgraceful performance, such is the case for America’s Ivy League universities.

This week, Harvard declined to fire its president, Claudine Gay, for her dismal and disastrous performance in front of Congress, where she could not bring herself to say that calling for the genocide of Jews would constitute harassment or bullying under on Harvard’s code of conduct.

In failing to do so, Harvard has managed an incredible........

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