Last week, The Crimson revealed a large-scale fundraising campaign by senior administrators intended to transform the ideological makeup of Harvard’s faculty, ostensibly to provide “viewpoint diversity.” Per this plan, some 20 to 30 new professors could be appointed “at the University level” — which suggests, not by field experts at the department level, a sharp departure from the normal course of faculty appointments — and “embedded across schools and departments,” in an apparent attempt to dilute our professoriate’s purported liberal bias…. Fundamentally, this hiring push is part of a broader effort to diminish the authority and autonomy of the faculty. It would weaken a robust tradition of peer review and increase administrative control over University affairs.