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In the immediate aftermath of the attacks of September 11, 2001,
President George W. Bush declared a “war on terror,” which
persists with no end in sight. In this paper, I focus on what these
developments mean for social science. How should social scientists deal
with the threats to civil liberties that always accompany the outbreak
of war? Following the precepts of Max Weber, I argue that the
flourishing of social science requires that social scientists take
responsibility, individually and collectively, for promoting the
liberal values that make our academic practices possible. That implies
individual scholarly inquiry into the nature and consequences of the
war, individual scholarly affiliation with associations that promote
academic freedom, and perhaps intervention by professional associations
and their affiliates on behalf of academic freedom and political
liberties.
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