“[This book] is right on target. And you just have to love a book . . . that declares that while faculty must ‘respect students as persons,’ they are under no obligation to respect the ‘ideas held by students.’ Way to go!”—Stanley Fish, <i>New York Times</i><br /><br />“A handy and readable survey of theory and practice, with pointed illustrations of faculty renegades and administrator tyrants, along with the AAUP’s efforts to arbitrate the delicate balance between intellectual innovation and academic duty, adversarial minds and scholarly guidelines.”—Mark Bauerlein, <i>Weekly Standard</i><br /><br />“By breaking down academic freedom into the component parts of teaching, research, intramural speech, and extramural speech, the authors show how a vibrant version of academic freedom functions not as an immunity, but rather as a means for faculty to challenge intellectual orthodoxies while also being valued contributors to mainstream life.”—S. B. Lichtman, <i>Choice</i><br /><br />“This book is certainly the best and clearest analysis I have read on the theory and practice of academic freedom. It should be required reading for anyone interested in this important subject.”—Derek Bok, The 300th Anniversary University Professor and president emeritus, Harvard University<br /><br />“There is no better corrective—or alternative—to the ‘corporate’ University than this courageous book that redefines the spirit of ‘academic freedom’ for our times. In recalling the principles of common law and the public good that underlie the ideals of academic freedom, Post and Finkin have held our scholarly profession to its highest standards, and saved us—as scholars and teachers—from the glib and glittering inducements of the intellectual marketplace.”—Homi K. Bhabha, Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities Department of English and American Literature and Language Director, Harvard Humanities Center, Harvard University<br /><br />“At a time when too many of academic freedom’s defenders and critics are unclear about just what academic freedom is—and is not—this historically grounded, lucid formulation of academic freedom’s basic principles is of extraordinary value.”—David A. Hollinger, University of California, Berkeley<br /><br />