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Conventional wisdom would have caused the academic community to expect the very worst in the perilous days after the September 11 terrorist attacks. Indeed, many of us feared that outspoken professors would suffer even harsher reprisals than had their predecessors during the McCarthy era. After all, a direct attack on U.S. continental soil, resulting in three thousand deaths (or five thousand as it seemed initially), had no counterpart during the Cold War period. For myriad reasons, both real and imagined, even a sanguine observer might well have feared a perilous prospect for the academic community in the aftermath of the 9/11 trauma.
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O’Neil, R.M. (2010). The Post-9/11 University. In: Carvalho, E.J., Downing, D.B. (eds) Academic Freedom in the Post-9/11 Era. Education, Politics, and Public Life. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117297_13
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