It's awkward for MIT, but it's awkward for all the big schools, who are equal parts of the same fundraising racket/lack of long term planning/moral vacuum, or to call it what it really is, knowledge destruction. web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/321…
If she were applying for a job at Politico, the person doing the interview wouldn't write 'controversial' on their assessment, they'd write 'unhinged.' In other words, Politico doesn't agree with Politico, which is an everyday example of a deep current. politico.com/news/2021/02/0…
View this as a transcript of American society, 2020, because of the types of players and their roles: axios.com/trump-oval-off…
I'm not able to do anything productive right now so I want to drill something home: this front page took decades. It is an outcome of us: @harvard, @yale, @stanford, @princeton, @MIT, and more, as much as it is anything. Recognize it & rebuilding is possible; bandaids won't work.