Claudine "Fake and" Gay is out at Harvard, and there's something about this scandal that reveals what makes academic corruption so painful and infuriating: it's the humiliation of having to believe a lie. As it happens, this is a news story that can illustrate—with a little help from William Shakespeare—the core issue in matters of sin, art, and our present national dysfunction.

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