Professor James Hankins, who taught history at Harvard for about 40 years, ended his tenure last semester with what Fox News describes as a "scathing piece" titled "Why I'm Leaving Harvard," published in Compact Magazine.
"The university's strict COVID regime ... was a form of emergency governance that mirrored to a fault the whole country's uncritical acceptance of The Science and its proclivity, when backed by public power, for tyrannous invasions of private life," he wrote in part.
Matt Lamb of The College Fix says Professor Hankins' testimony is "no surprise."
"The university has a clearly documented history of allowing and encouraging the targeting of individuals who are considered right-leaning or propose ideas deemed unacceptable by professors and students at the university," he relays.
Another point Hankins makes is that in 2021, the year following what he calls the "Summer of Floyd," an admissions committee told him that accepting a white male applicant was "not happening this year."
"Professor Hankins alleges that the only so-called white male that was allowed to be hired was actually a gender-confused woman," Lamb notes. "That suggests discrimination on the basis of race, sex, and also sexual orientation – that the only way to get hired as a white male is to actually be transgender and be a woman."
Additionally, Hankins described how the history department at Harvard, "harangued by activists," lowered academic standards and all but abandoned the Western canon and Western history alike.
Considering that other conservatives – Professor Mark Ramseyer, professor and decorated war veteran Kit Parker, and evolutionary biologist Carole Hooven – have dealt with similar cancelling or targeting at Harvard, Lamb says Professor Hankins' account comports.
He believes Harvard's history of silencing conservative thought is why only 3%-5% of the faculty there is conservative.
Hankins has now taken a role as a visiting professor at the University of Florida.
