The former Boston Globe columnist and current blogger refuses to let the Andrei Shleifer scandal fade into moral vacuity, and he’s written another terrific column about the choice Harvard now faces—a choice that some members of its (former?) administration seemed determined to avoid or blur for as long as possible.

Warsh writes:

Within the university, the debate about what to do about Shleifer seems to have centered so far on the distinction between civil and criminal code.

Why worry about it if the government didn’t have enough evidence to charge him with a crime?

If this is the litmus test for one’s ability to remain a star professor on the Harvard faculty, then the university truly does believe in excellence without a soul.

How could anyone possibly read David McClintick’s article in Institutional Investor and not come away thinking that Shleifer’s behavior, whether it falls into the realm of criminal or civil law, has done enormous damage to Harvard (not to mention Russia)?