Academic Freedom at the Dawn of a New Century

This volume explores the state of academic freedom in the United States and abroad. What impact have the attacks of September 11th and the ensuing war on terrorism had on free speech, access to information, government funding of the sciences, and other cornerstones of freedom of inquiry at American universities? How has the renewed emphasis on patriotism affected the "culture wars" that aroused so much controversy on American campuses? And how does academic freedom in the United States compare to that of other nations? To engage these crucial questions, the editors have assembled some of the nation's leading experts on academic freedom, from a broad range of disciplines including law, political science, and the history of science.

Evan Gerstmann is associate professor and chair of the department of political science at Loyola Marymount University. He has published two books on constitutional law, The Constitutional Class: Gays, Lesbians and the Failure of Class-Based Equal Protection(1999) and Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution(2003). Matthew J. Streb is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northern Illinois University. He is the author of The New Electoral Politics of Race and coauthor of Clued in to Politics: A Critical Thinking Reader in American Government.