Should professors be held accountable for speech they make off-campus, on-line, and apart from their professional role in the university? Does academic freedom mean freedom of speech (it does not), and what are the crucial differences? I spoke with Professor Henry Reichman, who has served as Vice President of the American Association of University Professor, a prestigious organization that defends (and explains) academic freedom for now over 100 years. Professor Reichman has chaired the AAUP's Committee on Academic Freedom and just published a lucid book on these issues called The Future of Academic Freedom. He believes that we must not take academic freedom for granted, and that the time is now to explain it, stand up for it, defend it.