Priests of Our Democracy

Marjorie Heins is a civil liberties lawyer, writer, and teacher, and the founding director of the Free Expression Policy Project. Her previous book, Not in Front of the Children, won the American Library Association’s 2002 Eli Oboler Award for best published work in the field of intellectual freedom. Other books include Sex, Sin, and Blasphemy: A Guide to America's Censorship Wars; Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence; and Strictly Ghetto Property: The Story of Los Siete de la Raza. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

Introduction Part I: Prelude to the Deluge 1 "Sifting and Winnowing" 2 Radicalism and Reaction in the 1930s 3 Rapp-Coudert Part II: Teachers and Free Speech 4 The Board of Education and the Feinberg Law 5 Insubordination and "Conduct Unbecoming" 6 The Vinson Court Part III: The Purge Comes to Higher Education 7 The McCarran Committee and the City Colleges 8 "The Laughing-Stock of Europe" 9 The Moral Dilemma: Naming Names Part IV: The Supreme Court and Academic Freedom 10 Red Monday and Beyond 11 The Road to Keyishian 12 "A Pall of Orthodoxy over the Classroom"Part V: Politics, Repression, and the Future of Academic Freedom 13 "A Generation Stopped in Its Tracks" 14 Academic Freedom after Keyishian 15 September 11 and Beyond Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index About the Author