New College Independent Alumni/ae Association

As I write this post, the buffoons self-identified as the ‘Council of Elders’, ‘Thinkers for the Whole’, aka ‘Historical Leadership’ of New College, are preparing a letter to the Western Association of Schools and Colleges pleading their case for leniency in moral terms. We kid you not.

While attempting to get away with fraud and gross incompetence due to their assumed piety is nothing new for charlatans like Peter Gabel (the leader of this imagined ’spiritual community’), it’s still galling, after all the lives he’s ruined, to hear him claiming a right to the high ground.

One really has to read Nina Siegal’s profile of Gabel to comprehend the extent of his delusions. At some level of consciousness, he probably knows he’s a fraud, but that is likely more than he can psychologically handle. Especially now that his playhouse has been taken away.