Jim Sleeper, a lecturer in political science at Yale, is the author of Liberal Racism and The Closest of Strangers: Liberalism and the Politics of Race in New York.
Randall Kennedy is fascinated by a paradox: the color line's persistence and its seeming implosion.
Letters on Steve Brodner's caricatures, Graham Usher's metaphors and an exchange between Jim Sleeper and Joe Klein.
All the warmongering that's fit to print.


