OPINION A bus bearing Harvard University's seal is reflected in a window in Cambridge on July 2.SOPHIE PARK/NYT Kirsten Weld is a professor of history at Harvard University and president of the Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors. Andrew Manuel Crespo is a pro...

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