Affirming shared values will help academic freedom weather the storm

"social license" "political weather" What is your point here? Little but slogans without examples, meanings, context, interpretation. Promotion....

I challenge to understand Magna Carta in any meaningful way and argue for its relevance. There were no universities at that time. Poor sloganeering and promotion

Good initiative, but not strong enough by far: you need to stand up for the scholarship much more, which stands outside of (and perhaps above) public and political perception. Academic leadership across the country are not defending research any more. Instead they try to use it for marketing for student fees, but focus on teaching and popularity, or government policy. We now have an alienated university system which academics despise and students dislike. Yet, it's the research that attracts the students and fees etc, and gives the university its reputation around the world. Currently neither the parts of the public nor populist politicians want to support research because some findings offend their sensibilities or undermine their entitlements. Yet academics have to defend their work even so, because it's the basis of the university from which teaching (and progress) springs. Universities cannot be shaped by popularity contests. Academic populism will not provide global public goods, but it wastes resources and encourages mistaken policies.

Magna Carta is a founding document for civil rights in the English-speaking world. (Yes, there were universities in England in 1215, two of them.) I am glad to hear that universities today have their own version of it. The original is still worth reading for its own sake. (Medieval Studies, is still necessary, too, as this discussion demonstrates.)