Donald Alexander Downs Is Professor of Political Science, Law and Journalism at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has written four previous books, including Nazis in Skokie: Freedom, Community, and the First Amendment, winner of the Annisfield-Wolf Book Award and The New Politics of Pornography, winner of the Gladys M. Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association. Professor Downs has also published extensively in leading journals, encyclopedias and professional books, lectured throughout the US and in England and Scotland, and made numerous media appearances on radio and television to discuss issues of American politics and law.
Part I. Introduction and Background: 1. The return of the proprietary
university and the new politics of free speech and civil liberty; 2.
Background: the rise of anti-free speech and liberty ideologies; Part II.
Case Studies in the Politics of Civil Liberty on Campus: 3. Columbia's
sexual misconduct policy: civil liberty vs. solidarity; 4. Berkeley and the
rise of the anti-free speech movement; 5. Undue process at Penn; 6.
Renewal: the rise of the free speech movement at Wisconsin; 7. Abolition in
the Wisconsin faculty senate and its aftermath; 8. Some conclusions
concerning civil liberty and political strategy.
