Victor Loveland is a Classics professor at Isaiah College, near Fort Beulah, who gets fired from his job for criticizing the government. He eventually ends up as a teacher in a labor camp, a clerk in a quarry, and finally a prisoner in Trianon. After a mob of prisoners kills Shad Ledue, Effingham Swan randomly decides to execute Loveland (and several other prisoners) as punishment. But ironically enough, like Doremus Jessup, Loveland is a committed liberal who doesn’t believe in violence. In fact, he’s one of the only people in Fort Beulah besides Jessup to recognize early on that Buzz Windrip poses a severe threat to fundamental liberal values, like freedom and equality.