Randall Kennedy

Many, many academics resent them.

A string of professors have been condemned, disciplined, even fired for saying the N-word in full.

Hyperbolic accusations do more harm than good.

Harvard students are outraged over Ronald Sullivan’s legal work. They should learn from it instead.

Since when is reading James Baldwin out loud in class an academic crime?

The recent past demonstrates that freedom of expression on college campuses has attained a breadth and intensity of support, within academe and without, that is unprecedented in the nation’s history. President George Bush illustrated this when he charged in a commencement address at the University…

President Clinton will likely have the opportunity to fill several vacancies on the Supreme Court. How should he go about doing it? Although the president should look to a variety of considerations, by far the most important is a prospect’s substantive political commitments. By substantive…