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Government & Politics
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While Democracy Sleeps: A White Paper on Democratic Citizenship in the United States
August 19, 2026
Paul C. Taylor, Stephanie Robinson, Eddie S. Glaude & Ronald S. Sullivan, Jr., While Democracy Sleeps: A White Paper on Democratic Citizenship in the United…
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The Conscience of an Anti-War Activist
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, The Conscience of an Anti-War Activist: In Praise of James Carroll, Public Seminar (Oct. 25, 2022).
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Nonviolence From a Military Angle
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Nonviolence From a Military Angle, 33 Am. Prospect 61 (Dec. 2022) (reviewing Thomas E. Ricks, Waging a Good War (2022)).
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Why Justice Breyer Will Resign at the End of This Court Term
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Why Justice Breyer Will Resign at the End of This Court Term, Am. Prospect (June 22, 2021).
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The Ebb and Flow of Racial Progress
August 19, 2026
Randall Kennedy, The Ebb and Flow of Racial Progress, Am. Prospect, Dec. 3, 2020.
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Randall Kennedy, Cynical Realism: Randall Kennedy on the Biases of the Supreme Court, London Rev. Books, Jan. 21, 2021.
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Politicians in Robes: The Supreme Court’s War Against Equality
August 19, 2026
Randall Kennedy, Politicians in Robes, The Nation, Oct. 19, 2020, at 41 (reviewing Adan Cohen, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More…
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John Lewis’s Last Journey
August 19, 2026
Randall Kennedy, John Lewis’s Last Journey, Am. Prospect July 27, 2020.
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The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril
August 19, 2026
Randall Kennedy, The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril, Am. Prospect, June 19, 2020, at 6.
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Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy & Eugene Volokh, Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond (Aug. 29, 2020).
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The Courage to Defy Brutality
August 19, 2026
Randall Kennedy, The Courage to Defy Brutality, 30 Am. Prospect, Spring 2019, at 74 (reviewing Richard Gergel, Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard…
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The Apparatchik
August 19, 2026
Randall Kennedy, The Apparatchik, The Nation, Oct. 29, 2019, at 35 (reviewing Corey Robin, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (2019)).
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Reconsidering Palmer v. Thompson
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Reconsidering Palmer v. Thompson, 2018 Sup. Ct. Rev. 179 (2018).
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The Confounding Truth About Frederick Douglass
August 19, 2026
Randall Kennedy, The Confounding Truth About Frederick Douglass, Atlantic, Dec. 1, 2018, at 36 (reviewing David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018)).
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Walker v. City of Birmingham Revisited
August 19, 2026
Randall Kennedy, Walker v. City of Birmingham Revisited, 2017 Sup. Ct. Rev. 313.
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State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice
August 19, 2026
Randall Kennedy, State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice, Am. Prospect, July 24, 2017, at 1 (reviewing Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: The Forgotten…
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Despair is Not an Option
August 19, 2026
Randall Kennedy, Despair is Not an Option, Am. Prospect, Sept. 20, 2017, at 1.
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Black America’s Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Black America’s Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist, Am. Prospect, Nov. 10, 2014.
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Old Poison, New Battles
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Old Poison, New Battles, Harper’s Mag., Aug. 2015.
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Why Obama’s Black Critics are Wrong
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Why Obama’s Black Critics are Wrong, CNN.com, Sept. 19, 2011.
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The Word ‘Minority’ Isn’t Pejorative
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, The Word ‘Minority’ Isn’t Pejorative, Boston Globe, Jan. 8, 2002.