Government & Politics

Randall L. Kennedy, The Conscience of an Anti-War Activist: In Praise of James Carroll, Public Seminar (Oct. 25, 2022).

Randall L. Kennedy, Nonviolence From a Military Angle, 33 Am. Prospect 61 (Dec. 2022) (reviewing Thomas E. Ricks, Waging a Good War (2022)).

Randall L. Kennedy, Why Justice Breyer Will Resign at the End of This Court Term, Am. Prospect (June 22, 2021).

Randall Kennedy, Cynical Realism: Randall Kennedy on the Biases of the Supreme Court, London Rev. Books, Jan. 21, 2021.

Randall Kennedy, The Ebb and Flow of Racial Progress, Am. Prospect, Dec. 3, 2020.

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…

Randall Kennedy, John Lewis’s Last Journey, Am. Prospect July 27, 2020.

Randall Kennedy, The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril, Am. Prospect, June 19, 2020, at 6.

Randall L. Kennedy & Eugene Volokh, Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond (Aug. 29, 2020).

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…

Randall Kennedy, The Apparatchik, The Nation, Oct. 29, 2019, at 35 (reviewing Corey Robin, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (2019)).

Randall Kennedy, The Confounding Truth About Frederick Douglass, Atlantic, Dec. 1, 2018, at 36 (reviewing David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018)).

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…

Randall Kennedy, Despair is Not an Option, Am. Prospect, Sept. 20, 2017, at 1.

Randall L. Kennedy, Black America’s Promised Land: Why I Am Still a Racial Optimist, Am. Prospect, Nov. 10, 2014.

Randall L. Kennedy, Old Poison, New Battles, Harper’s Mag., Aug. 2015.

Randall L. Kennedy, Why Obama’s Black Critics are Wrong, CNN.com, Sept. 19, 2011.

Randall L. Kennedy, The Word ‘Minority’ Isn’t Pejorative, Boston Globe, Jan. 8, 2002.

Randall L. Kennedy, The Man From Pin Point, Wash. Post, Aug. 22, 2004 (reviewing Ken Foskett, Judging Thomas: The Life and Times of Clarence Thomas…

Randall L. Kennedy, The Media Jabs Are Unfair, Kagan Will Fight for Equality on the Court, Huffington Post, May 12, 2010.

Randall L. Kennedy, Blacks Reject Cain For Good Reason, CNN.com, Oct. 18, 2011.