Briefly, On Bard College

After 51 years as Bard College&rsquo;s President, Leon Botstein announced his resignation last Friday. This happened days after the release of the independent WilmerHale report on his relationship with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who Botstein had courted for donations relentlessly, even after Epstein&rsquo;s conviction. My own relationship with Bard is now very distant; I attended Bard from 1989…