Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Reframing Academic Freedom: An Introduction Edward J. Carvalho David B. Downing 1
1 State of the Union
Academic Unfreedom in America: Rethinking the University as a Democratic Public Sphere Henry A. Giroux 19
Barefoot in New Zealand: The Politics of Campus Conflict Cary Nelson 41
Marketing McCarthyism: The Media's Role in the War on Academic Freedom John K. Wilson 51
2 Churchill v. University of Colorado
The Myth of Academic Freedom: Experiencing the Application of Liberal Principle in a Neoconservative Era Ward Churchill 65
3 The Image and Reality of Teaching the Israel-Palestine Conflict
Civility and Academic Life Norman G. Finkelstein 117
The Risk of Knowing Irene Gendzier 133
4 Neoliberal Freedoms, Contingency, and Capital
Caught in the Crunch Ellen Messer-Davidow 151
Academic Bondage Jeffrey J. Williams 169
Take Your Ritalin and Shut Up Marc Bousquet 185
Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Intellectual Engagement Sophia A. McClennen 203
5 Reflections and "Tightrope Hopes"
Generation Kill: Nietzschean Meditations on the University, War, Youth, and Guns Susan Searls Giroux 217
The Post-9/11 University: It Could Have Been Much Worse Robert M. O'Neil 239
Lessons from History (Interview with Noam Chomsky) Edward J. Carvalho 247
"Taking Back the Street Corner" (Interview with Martín Espada) Edward J. Carvalho 257
Preserving the Democratic Experiment: Moral Courage and the Role of Intellectual Activism (Interview with Cornel West) Edward J. Carvalho 267
Contributors 285
Index 289