1. Randall Kennedy, an African American law professor at Harvard, has written that identity politics is “mere superstition and prejudice.”

Solution responds to the following questions:

1. Randall Kennedy, an African American law professor at Harvard, has written that identity politics is “mere superstition and prejudice.” “I eschew racial pride,” says Kennedy, “because of my conception of what should properly be the object of pride for an individual: something that he or she has accomplished. I can feel pride in a good deed I have done or a good effort I have made. I cannot feel pride in some state of affairs that is independent of my contribution to it. I did not achieve my racial designation” (Atlantic Monthly, May 1997, p. 56). Do you agree? Explain, indicating how you think Kymlicka and Young (Part 4, Chapter 18) might respond.

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2. What impact has the Internet had on the freedom of speech? Is it good or bad that information is so readily available? In what ways do you think the Internet should be censored, if at all? 

3. In what way does Nozick (Part 6, Chapter 15) think taxation is comparable to forced labor? Do you think he is right? Why or why not?

4. Using the essay by Lon Fuller in Part 6, Chapter 14, discuss the idea of the rule of law and the way(s) in which it is important for society to be ruled by law. (Note that “rule of law” does not simply mean there are laws–it means that no one can be punished for an action that was not clearly and publicly known to be illegal at the time the action is done. “Rule of law” also means that no government or public official is above the law.) If law does not guarantee justice or other values, then can it really be important? Explain.