As a former MIT person, I applaud the editorial board here. I had long assumed that despite MIT housing a dissident or two here and there, their primary social mission is to provide technical advice to the people that run the country and elite staff for them. MIT students and staff spend far too much time narrowly focused on (beautiful) math and engineering without properly reflecting on how their hard earned abilities will be used.

MBS's crimes in his country and in Yemen (and US complicity) should be sharply criticized by people who think they represent the front of progress for human civilization.