The differences in how this version of the pandemic presents itself provide fodder for thinking about what we have learned so far about responding to pandemics.
Opening our political selves to the idea of grace will swiftly turn down the temperature of our political skirmishes and facilitate productive relationships and compromise.
If we want to preserve the intellectual freedom that is an indispensable foundation of universities that are properly focused on the search for and transmission of truth, we must vigorously protect the rights of faculty to speak out on matters of public concern.