A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor – Quillette

In Congress, on July 4th, 1776, came the unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. Signed by 56 men, many of whom were considered national heroes just a few minutes ago, it opens with a long and elegant sentence whose first words every American child knows, or used to: When in the Course of human events& In Princeton, New Jersey, on July 4th, 2020, just two hours after my family and I sat around the festive table and read the Declaration aloud in celebration, a group of signatories now in the hundreds published a Faculty Letter to the president and other senior administrators at Princeton University.

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Hundreds of faculty members of one of the best universities in the US? Good lord. At least a few faculty members are standing up to it, but still.