Stuart Taylor, Jr.Harvard, the NY Times and the #MeToo Takedown of an Academic Star – Stuart Taylor, Jr. https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com Online Archive Fri, 20 Aug 2021 13:35:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-favicon-32x32.png Harvard, the NY Times and the #MeToo Takedown of an Academic Star – Stuart Taylor, Jr. https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com 32 32 Harvard, the NY Times and the #MeToo Takedown of an Academic Star https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com/harvard-the-ny-times-and-the-metoo-takedown-of-an-academic-star/ https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com/harvard-the-ny-times-and-the-metoo-takedown-of-an-academic-star/#respond Tue, 29 Jan 2019 15:44:27 +0000 Stuart Taylor, Jr. https://www.stuarttaylorjr.com/?p=17231 In a December 14, 2018 piece, the New York Times set the stage by noting that Roland G. Fryer Jr. had attained tenure at Harvard, received a MacArthur “genius” grant, and won the most prestigious award for a young American economist. Then came the takedown: “But his rapid ascent has taken a troubling turn as Harvard officials review a university investigator’s conclusion that Dr. Fryer fostered a work environment hostile to women, one filled with sexual talk and bullying.” This article, and Harvard’s sex bureaucracy, have made a near-pariah of the youngest black professor ever tenured at Harvard University, a man born […]

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]]> In a December 14, 2018 piece, the New York Times set the stage by noting that Roland G. Fryer Jr. had attained tenure at Harvard, received a MacArthur “genius” grant, and won the most prestigious award for a young American economist. Then came the takedown: “But his rapid ascent has taken a troubling turn as Harvard officials review a university investigator’s conclusion that Dr. Fryer fostered a work environment hostile to women, one filled with sexual talk and bullying.” This article, and Harvard’s sex bureaucracy, have made a near-pariah of the youngest black professor ever tenured at Harvard University, a man born into poverty who is still much admired among many former female and male subordinates and others who know him well – and who see the attacks on him as tinged with racism and “#MeToo” overreaction. The Times, among other sins against honest journalism, vastly overstated the criticism of Fryer in a confidential, 81-page report by ODR, which was itself grossly unfair to Fryer. The case against him boils down to telling a bunch of off-color jokes to subordinates.

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