{"id":76,"date":"2023-08-28T12:01:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-28T16:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/kenneth-mack\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2024-07-09T12:17:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-09T16:17:05","slug":"opinion-and-reviews","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.law.harvard.edu\/kenneth-mack\/opinion-and-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion and Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig: Review \u2013 A Story that Speaks to Our Times<\/a><\/strong>, (reviewing Jonathan Eig, King: A Life<\/em>), The Guardian, Mat 27, 2023<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Pathbreaking Black Journalist Offers a Model in Uncertain Times<\/a><\/strong>, (reviewing Charlayne Hunter-Gault, My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives<\/em>), Washington Post, Oct. 30, 2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did Ketanji Brown Jackson Rule Against Black Workers? It\u2019s Not So Simple<\/a>.<\/strong> Washington Post.<\/em> February 21, 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What Fannie Lou Hamer Can Teach Today\u2019s Activists<\/a>.<\/strong> (reviewing Keisha N. Blain, Until I am Free: Fannie Lou Hamer\u2019s Enduring Message to America). Washington Post.<\/em> November 19, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How a Decades-long Conversation Shaped the Young United States<\/a>.<\/strong> (reviewing Akhil Reed Amar, The Words that Made Us: America\u2019s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840). Washington Post<\/em>.  May 14, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Corporations that Back Voting Rights Will Find it\u2019s Good for Business, Too<\/a>.<\/strong> Washington Post<\/em>. April 20, 2021. (with Norman Eisen).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some Free-speech Norms are in Danger: Maybe that\u2019s a Good Thing<\/a>.<\/strong> (reviewing Ellis Cose, The Short Life and Curious Death of Free Speech in America). Washington Post<\/em>. November 6, 2020).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Running Deeper than Race: America\u2019s Caste System<\/a>.<\/strong> (reviewing Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents). Washington Post<\/em>. July 31, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Baldwin Spoke Eloquently to His Era: Does He Speak to Ours?<\/a><\/strong> (reviewing Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., Begin Again: James Baldwin\u2019s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own). Washington Post<\/em>. July 17, 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Black Writer on Individualism, Identity and Indifference in Trump\u2019s America<\/a>.<\/strong> (reviewing Clifford Thompson, What is Is: Race, Family and One Thinking Man\u2019s Blues). Washington Post<\/em>. December 19, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Contradictory Conservatism of Clarence Thomas.<\/a><\/strong> (reviewing Corey Robin, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas). Washington Post<\/em>. September, 26, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Lasting Legacy of a Brutal Racial Beating in 1946 South Carolina<\/a><\/strong> (reviewing Richard Gergel, Unexampled Courage), Washington Post<\/em>, January 31, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Defense of Black Lives Matter from the Activist in the Blue Vest<\/a><\/strong> (reviewing DeRay Mckesson, On the Other Side of Freedom), Washington Post<\/em>, November 2, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can History Prepare Us for the Trump Presidency?, (essays by twenty-one historians)<\/a><\/strong>, Politico<\/em>, January 22, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s Not Obama, It\u2019s Just the Sixth Year<\/a>, <\/strong>TIME, November 7, 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Remembering Civil Rights in 1963, 50 Years On<\/a><\/strong>.<\/strong> Huffington Post<\/em>. January 27, 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five Myths about Two-term Presidents<\/a>.<\/strong> Washington Post.<\/em> November 9, 2012.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Health Care Ruling: Not a Liberal Victory<\/a><\/strong>. The Root.<\/em> July 7, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Roots of Clarence Thomas’ Black Burden<\/a>.<\/strong> The Root.<\/em>  April 6, 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Progressives are Disenchanted with Obama — Abolitionists were Disenchanted with Lincoln<\/a>.<\/strong> History News Network.<\/em> July 10, 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court as a Racially Representative Institutio<\/a>n<\/strong>, SCOTUS Blog, February 4, 2010.

Rethinking the Rand Paul Controversy<\/a>.<\/strong> History News Network.<\/em> May 30, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Measure of History (on the Passage of the Affordable Care Act)<\/a><\/strong> Boston Globe<\/em>. March 25, 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even at Harvard, Obama Had a Knack for Bonding with Diverse People<\/a>.<\/strong> Harrisburg Patriot News<\/em>. February 17, 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which side is Brown vs. Board on?: Its Legal History Can’t Provide Absolutes in the Search for Racial Justice.<\/a><\/strong> Los Angeles Times.<\/em> July 4, 2007. (reprinted as “The Court, Race and Brown: Precedents to Suit Each Side: Famous Figures in Civil Rights History Speak in Two Voices,” Baltimore Sun<\/em>, July 8, 2007.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig: Review \u2013 A Story that Speaks to Our Times, (reviewing Jonathan Eig, King: A Life), The Guardian, Mat 27, 2023 This Pathbreaking Black Journalist Offers a Model in Uncertain Times, (reviewing Charlayne Hunter-Gault, My People: Five Decades of Writing about Black Lives), Washington Post, Oct. …<\/p>\n

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