ABSTRACT
In 1996, I published an introduction to the Transaction edition of Arthur O. Lovejoy’s The Revolt Against Dualism, first published in 1930 and in a second edition in 1960, two years before his death. The title of that introduction was “The Vocation of Academic Freedom” (Imber 1996). My interest in the history of academic freedom was inspired by events on my own campus during those years, which have been chronicled by my colleague Mary Lefkowitz in History Lesson: A Race Odyssey (Lefkowitz 2008). I rely here generously on my own published introduction to Lovejoy’s work in the recounting of that history while bringing up to date the fate of academic freedom in an era of global challenges to self-governance.
