Grab your popcorn, kids, it’s a good old fashioned Plagiarism War. In the end, it was the morally inverted rape parades that drove America’s more moderate billionaires to interrogate those age old questions “what the hell is going on at Harvard,” and “why the hell am I paying for this?” But today, as an entire class of former-fence sitters introspect, not only on the problems of the world but on the donor class’s role in causing these problems, no personal evolution has been more stark, or more public, than that of hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, who is presently waging war against the American institutions most hopelessly rotted by radical activist politics; no disrupted vector of radical power more starkly embodies the changing times than Claudine Gay, the former Harvard president who, it would seem from the press, Ackman just fired; and no piece of this saga, from inception to the vindictive institutional backlash now bearing down on Ackman’s wife, would be possible without the discourse vacuum inherent of Elon Musk’s free Twitter — a total collapse of the Overton window. With the shape of culture up for grabs, idealists and ideologues from every pole, and from every corner, have finally come to agreement on one point: the game is no longer rigged in favor of the craziest people alive. This is why, for the first time in decades, everyone is playing to win. Anon, have you ever seen a scared authoritarian before?

Things are about to get ugly.

The story went something like this: following Hamas’ October 7th terror attack in Israel, TikTok-brained “yay terrorism” demonstrations seized the world, and chaos erupted on college campuses across America. There, the concept of two aggrieved racial minorities — Jews and Arabs — demanding “safety” from each other (silence from their opponents) shattered far left orthodoxy, and the internal inconsistency of activist zealotry concluded in the disastrous congressional hearing of three prominent university presidents. In a noble, if totally unexpected defense of free speech, each of these powerful women declined to condemn the masturbatory genocidal fantasies levied against Israelis on their campuses, an argument that would have found more sympathy had these same campuses not spent the last decade endorsing the concept of “words constitute literal violence.” Public outrage was immense. Ackman threatened the boards of Harvard and MIT, accusing the latter of tax fraud. College donors across the country revoked millions in funding, and UPENN’s Elizabeth Magill was forced to resign.