Indeed, as more details came to light, the more Richwine started to look like an earnest dupe – just a simple racist caught in a world he didn't create and couldn't understand.
The real criminals here would seem to be Harvard, whose faculty is busy trying to avoid a conversation about whether they actually read Richwine's dissertation, and the insular world of Washington wonks, where you're not considered an "extremist" unless you disrupt lunch.