M.I.T.’s Choice of Lecturer Ignited Criticism. So Did Its Decision to Cancel.

Oct 21st 2021 5:46pm EDT

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited the geophysicist Dorian Abbot to give a prestigious public lecture this autumn. He seemed a natural choice, a scientific star who studies climate change and whether planets in distant solar systems might harbor atmospheres conducive to life. Then a swell of angry resistance arose. Some faculty members and graduate […]

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