Here's the third in my series of essays for the Knight Institute's Reconstructing Free Expression project. In it, I propose a few methods for bypassing the president (this one and any future ones) for the disbursal of federal funds to higher education and other knowledge-producing institutions.
How can we better insulate federal funding to universities from political interference?
In a new essay, @dorfonlaw.bsky.social proposes new models for distributing research funds outside direct government control to help protect research and academic freedom.