This isn’t the retirement Rick Spinrad had planned. He was going to move out of Washington, D.C., at long last. Join a board or two. Get back to the music he loved but never seemed to have time for during more than 40 years as a scientist and administrator.
Then came Trump 2.0’s ferocious war on science, and on the government agencies that have funded and nurtured research for three-quarters of a century.
