The article details the resignation of a member from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council, citing a hostile political climate and diminishing integrity within these institutions. Despite efforts to maintain their missions of promoting knowledge, increasing barriers and procedural challenges have led to a sense of futility. The author emphasizes the importance of freedom of expression and the vital role of these institutions in fostering democratic ideals and innovation, ultimately concluding that continuing in such an environment has become untenable.
"Perseverance has its limits. The erosion of these institutions' integrity and the growing realization that it is impossible to fulfill their missions in good faith has made the cost of continuing untenable."
"I have encountered increasing barriers to the exercise of honest counsel. These repeated obstacles of procedural circumvention represent not just personal frustration, but institutional regression."
#resignation #national-science-board #library-of-congress #political-climate #institutional-integrity
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