This week I’m reading a classic in American intellectual history and the history of higher education: The Development of Academic Freedom in the United States, co-authored by Richard Hofstadter and Walter P. Metzger and published in 1955 by Columbia University Press as part of the American Academic Freedom Project. Unfortunately, the work as originally published is no longer in print.  Instead, only Hofstadter’s contribution to the volume, “The Age of the College,” is available, under the title Academic Freedom in the Age of the College.  Roger L. Geiger has written an introduction to this standalone volume published by Routledge. Making Read more