Harvard Demonstrates How Much America Needs Its Research by Hiring a Drag Queen Professor

Harvard is a drag, literally.

Amid its ongoing fight with President Donald Trump over whether Harvard University violated the civil rights of students and even deserves to receive millions of dollars from the American taxpayer, the school decided that it was a smart idea to hire a literal drag queen to teach courses.

“Harvard University hired a drag performer as a new professor—who is expected to teach a class on TV show ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ in the spring semester, the Ivy League school announced over the summer,” New York Post reported.

Harvard hired Kareem Khubchandani in July. He is a visiting professor from Tufts University and will teach in the Studies of Gender and Sexuality program.

The drag performance isn’t just a side gig for the professor, who also plays up his Pakistani heritage. According to the Post, he has incorporated it into his teaching for over a decade.

“I am an educator, scholar, and performer invested in feminist, queer, and trans everyday-aesthetics, particularly in South Asia and its diaspora,” the professor’s personal website reads according to WJLA, ABC’s Washington, D.C., affiliate.

Khubchandani wrote on his website that he intends to bring “the nightclub to the classroom, and vice versa, teaching critical race, postcolonial, and gender theory through lip sync and lecture.” He further wrote that he “enacts the pedagogies of queer nightlife by turning the lecture hall into a nightclub, or the cabaret into a classroom, depending on the space.”

Apparently, he aims to use drag to “stage postcolonial, ethnic, and gender studies by engaging Sufi music, Disney imagery, Bollywood tropes, and ethnographic research.”

It’s interesting that he considers this performance “postcolonial.” I can’t think of any more invasive, pernicious kind of modern Western colonialism than a drag queen showing up at a traditional, non-Western society to proselytize about “queer nightlife.”

Somehow Khubchandani has made an entire career in academia out of this bio. What will the nation do without this “world class” research?

The reactions on social media were what you would expect.

LibofTikTok wrote that she couldn’t believe it was real.

Bill Ackman wrote that university founder John Harvard is “rolling over in his grave.” Honestly, I think he’s rolled plenty over the years and deserves his rest.

Several members of Congress weighed in too.

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., wrote of Harvard, “what happened to them?”

And maybe most importantly, Rep. Elise Stefanik, who chaired the higher education hearings that led to the firing of a Harvard president, wrote that Harvard “still doesn’t get it and they will not fix themselves.”

That’s correct.

I find it hard to get truly upsetby this. That Harvard is hiring drag queens to teach joke classes is pretty on point, actually. It only draws attention to the fact that the university is far from the serious academic institution that Americans once thought it to be. It’s become more of an exclusive credentialing mill and social network for the world’s leftist pseudo-elite that puts ideology over everything else.

If Harvard wants to become a clown school with crossdressing professors and remedial math courses for the alleged best of the best, then it can go right ahead. That may work for a little while they ride the coattails of past success, but Harvard’s reputation won’t last forever. The American people have grown weary of false appeals to credibility and authority from institutions that no longer deserve that kind of respect and deference.

The problem is that we’re funding this.

Trump and Republicans in Congress are correct to take this moment to pressure Harvard and countless other colleges and universities dependent on taxpayer money that they need to make some serious changes or lose financial support.

These schools should be using this time to demonstrate what their research means for the United States, to show how they will help more young Americans become leaders and find opportunities, to provide broader philosophical perspectives by bringing in a few non-leftist professors.

Some might do that now given how much they depend on public money. Harvard seems less likely to. One way or another, Americans shouldn’t have to fund this nonsense anymore. We shouldn’t have to provide endless material support to schools with endowments larger than many small countries that are now a net negative to the health of our republic than a positive.

Harvard is free to take a drag race to perdition. Just don’t expect we, the people, to pay for the ride.

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