Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era
Downing, D. / Carvalho, E.![Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/109/10962135/CHSBZCOP0310962135.jpg)
Academic freedom has been a principle that undergirds the university since 1915. Beyond this, it also protects a spirit of free inquiry essential to a democratic society. But in the post-9/11 present, the basic principles of academic freedom have been deeply challenged. There have been many startling instances where the rhetoric of national security and terror, corporate interests, and privatization have cast a pall over the terrain of academi...