How did you first learn about Gandhi? On the one hand, Gandhi is used as a political football to garner votes, but on the other, India needs a moral compass like him now more than ever. You embarked on a three-year experiment to follow Gandhi’s moral compass and travel to countries where he had lived to explore his influence. When …
— As the third president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Francis Amasa Walker helped usher the school into national prominence in the late 1800s. But another part of his legacy has received renewed attention amid the nation’s reckoning with racial justice: his role in shaping the nation’s hardline policies toward Native Americans as a former head of the U.S. …
