https://www.chronicle.com/article/after-criticism-harvard-dean-reverses-course-on-fellowship-for-human-rights-leader "Elmendorf has emphasized that his decision was not made in an effort to limit debate at the Kennedy School. He said he plans to ask a faculty committee to develop a process to evaluate future appointments of fellows." They should have done this after the Chelsea Manning affair, and we'll see what the details of the putative committee arrangements are, but it's plausibly progress, and makes similar interventions much less likely in future.