Foreword / by Irene Mulvey --
Introduction: A time for faculty to act / Valerie C. Johnson, Jennifer Ruth, and Ellen Schrecker --
Academic freedom and political repression from McCarthyism to Trump / Ellen Schrecker --
A Koch-funded racial backlash : understanding the Critical Race Theory moral panic / Isaac Kamola --
The rise of educational gag orders / Jonathan Friedman, Jeremy C. Young, and James Tager --
The epistemology of ignorance and its impact on democracy and higher education / Valerie C. Johnson --
Knowledge and good community organizing can counter the "Divisive Concepts" campaign / Kevin McGruder --
Subverting the intent of the fourteenth amendment / Dennis Parker --
"Don't Say gay" and Can't be trans : behind the anti-LGBTQ+ schooling agenda / Sonnet Gabbard, Anne Mitchell, and Heather Montes Ireland --
The resolutions : mobilizing faculty senates to defend academic freedom / Jennifer Ruth --
Silence gets us nowhere : faculty responses to anti-CRT and divisive cncepts legislation / Sarah Sklaw --
Academic freedom : it's a question of job security / Helena Worthen and Joe Berry --
My battle to preserve academic freedom at the University of Florida / Sharon D. Wright Austin --
Florida faculty unions and the struggle for public education / Katie Rainwater --
Schools of education under fire / Marvin Lynn, Michael E. Dantley, and Lynn M. Gangone.
