MIT President Sally Kornbluth today rejected a demand from the former wrestling executive who now runs what's left of the federal Department of Education to agree to regime demands to align with Dear Leader's racial- and religious-purity holdings in exchange for access to federal funds.

In a letter to Education Secretary Linda McMahon, Kornbluth wrote she could not agree to a funding "compact" that "would restrict freedom of expression and our independence as an institution."

And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.

In our view, America's leadership in science and innovation depends on independent thinking and open competition for excellence. In that free marketplace of ideas, t

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