From Veritas to Vaudeville: Harvard's Drag Queen Debacle and the Left's Stranglehold on Western Academia! By Professor X

Picture this: You've shelled out US $90,000 a year, yes, ninety grand, to send your Aussie kid over the "lake" to Harvard USA, the self-proclaimed cradle of American intellectualism. What do they get in return? A syllabus heavy on Shakespeare? Quantum physics? The Federalist Papers? No. How about "RuPaulitics: Drag, Race, and Desire," taught by a visiting professor moonlighting as the drag queen LaWhore Vagistan? If that doesn't make William F. Buckley rise from his grave and demand a recount on his famous quip — "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University" — I don't know what will. Buckley's 1960s zinger feels quaint now; in 2025, it's prophetic. Harvard's latest hire isn't just a clown show, it's the glittering tip of a progressive iceberg that's sunk Western universities into a sea of ideological sludge.

As conservatives, we've watched this slow-motion trainwreck for decades: Left-wing ideologues capturing campuses, turning bastions of free inquiry into echo chambers of grievance studies and gender-bending activism. This Harvard hire? It's not an outlier; it's the norm. From Cambridge to Canberra, progressive dominance has warped higher ed into a factory for woke warriors, churning out degrees in "queer ethnography" while basic literacy rates plummet. Let's unpack the farce, and why it's time to pull the plug.

Announced just days ago on October 1, 2025, Harvard's Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department welcomed Kareem Khubchandani, better known in sequins as LaWhore Vagistan, as a visiting prof for the year. Khubchandani, an associate prof at Tufts, will strut through fall's "Queer Ethnography" (exploring "bodies, pleasure, power, and desire" via ethnographic navel-gazing) and spring's "RuPaulitics" (a deep dive into RuPaul's Drag Race archives, laced with "critical readings on race and gender"). Oh, and he'll lecture in drag, per the New York Post, because nothing says "rigorous scholarship" like analysing lip-sync battles for intersectional insights.

Khubchandani's cred? Books like Decolonize Drag and the forthcoming Lessons in Drag: A Queer Manual for Academics, Artists, and Aunties (Brandeis University Press, because why not?). In a 2015 Johns Hopkins self-interview, he explained his moniker: "LaWhore" nods to Lahore, Pakistan (his family's roots), plus a dash of self-deprecating promiscuity; "Vagistan" celebrates South Asia as "one big, beautiful Vag...istan." Charming. For $7,400 per course, Harvard parents are funding this? As Jonathan Turley quipped on X, if LaWhore doles out one B in a sea of A's, he/she'll be the toughest grader in Cambridge.

The backlash? Swift and savage on X. Bill Ackman torched it as a "middle finger" to Trump-era taxpayers footing Harvard's bill via federal grants. Diamond and Silk's crowd howled at the "glitter cult brainwashing." One vet fumed: "Dems & Libs are turning this world into a freak show." Even the NY Post Opinion called it "hilarious" in its absurdity, not outrage, just pity for a once-great institution now parodying itself.

But here's the conservative rub: This isn't harmless fun. It's indoctrination disguised as education, prioritising performative identity politics over timeless truths. Harvard's motto? Veritas (truth). Their reality? A vaudeville act where drag decolonisation trumps dead languages or differential equations.

Harvard's not alone; it's exhibit A in a gallery of academic absurdities sweeping the West. Data paints a grim picture: In the U.S., surveys show faculty lean Left by ratios as high as 12:1 in social sciences, with outright liberals outnumbering conservatives 28:1 at elite schools. A 2023 Wikipedia deep-dive traces this to the 1930s, accelerating post-1960s with cultural Marxism infiltrating humanities. Result? Campuses as conservative-free zones, where dissent gets the Heterodox Academy treatment, or worse, cancellation.

Drag in the ivory tower? It's a trend. At Western University in Canada, maths whiz-turned-drag queen Pattenden moonlights as an assistant prof in economics and maths, blending equations with oestrogen-fuelled evenings. Indiana University's philosophy lib guides peddle "Queer Theory" primers like candy. Old Dominion's theses dissect RuPaul's Drag Race as "homonormative brand culture," commodifying queer identities for the masses. And in the UK? Gale's archives highlight far-Right pushback against "dangerous drag queens" in academia, from Oxford's gender studies seminars to Edinburgh's trans-inclusive theatre courses.

Europe's no sanctuary. Sweden and Germany's poli-sci depts mobilise "childhood" rhetoric for progressive agendas, per a 2025 Frontiers study, echoing U.S. fights over drag story hours in schools. CQ Researcher's 2023 report logs politicised ed across the pond: Fistfights at U.S. boards mirror UK campus clashes over "decolonising" curricula. Even RSC Publishing griped in 2023 about "academic free speech" under siege from within, Lefty scientists crying foul while silencing sceptics.

The pattern? Progressives don't just dominate, they define what's taught. Humanities? Flooded with DEI drivel post-2020, as The New Yorker's 2025 piece on "What Comes After D.E.I.?" laments: Post-Trump re-election, college prezs huddle to rebrand the rot. STEM? Creeping in via "inclusive" mandates. Families pay premium for this? No wonder enrolment's tanking, down 15% at elites since 2019.

From a conservative perch, this is existential. Universities were meant to forge citizens, not activists, inculcating virtue, reason, and Western heritage. Instead, we've got a cartel of coastal cosmopolitans peddling victimhood as virtue, where "power and desire" trumps Plato and Locke. Buckley's barb wasn't hyperbole; it's biology. Elites, insulated in ivory bubbles, breed contempt for the "deplorables" in flyover country. Harvard's average A-grade? A symptom of rigour's rigor mortis.

This Lefty lock-in erodes the West's soul. Free markets? Mocked in "decolonise" lit. Family values? "Queered." Christian roots? "Patriarchal." As ResearchGate's 2025 drag kings/queens analysis notes, gender performativity now is the curriculum, blurring lines till truth's a punchline. Taxpayers fund it via loans and grants; alumni like Ackman seethe as endowments balloon to $50B while standards sink.

Worse: It pipelines radicals into power. Harvard grads staff Biden's (or Harris's) admin, Big Tech, media, amplifying the echo. No wonder Gallup polls show trust in higher ed at 36%, lowest ever.

Enough. Conservatives must fight smart: Slash federal funding; defund the universities. Parents, opt for trade schools; real skills over rainbow theory.And laugh, darkly, at the clowns, as the Post does: LaWhore's hire is "hilarious" because it's unsustainable.

Buckley trusted the phone book for its common sense. In 2025, that directory's got more wisdom than Harvard's hall of mirrors. The West's universities are loss, disappearing down the septic tank of history.

https://www.thecollegefix.com/harvard-hires-drag-queen-lawhore-vagistan-to-teach-queer-ethnography/