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They were not the headliners. I expected the familiar: arrive, deliver remarks, affirm institutional commitments, depart. They did all the familiar, but then they stayed. Three times, in three different settings, I found university presidents not just staying but listening.…

For nearly eighty years, American science policy has lived under the shadow of a single idea: that scientific progress depends on insulating scientists from politics. In 1945, Vannevar Bush’s report Science, the Endless Frontier argued that if government funded basic…

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous thing is asking the wrong questions. —Peter Drucker, Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices (1974) OSTP’s RFI on ways to “Accelerate the American Scientific Enterprise”…