“Archival Silence: How Do We Write the History of the Subaltern Who Cannot Speak?” PS: Political Science 57:1 (2024): 92-94. (online)
“Insurgent Multiplicities,” European Journal of Political Theory 22:3 (2023): 496-502. (online)
“Roundtable on the Archive,” (Ladelle McWhorter, Kevin Olson, Verena Erlenbusch-Anderson, Perry Zurn, and William Parkhurst in conversation with moderator Colin Koopman), Genealogy + Critique 9:1 (2023): 1–29. (open access)
“Silence in the Archive” (Roundtable on the Theory and Practice of Archival Research), International History and Politics Newsletter 7:1 (Summer 2021): 4-6. (online)
“Imagining Freedom in a Postcolonial World,” Political Theory 48:6 (2020), 777-780. (online)
“Decolonizing Critical Theory,” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 36 (2020): 61-72.
Kevin Olson and Stephen K. White, “Critical Dialogue,” Perspectives on Politics 17:1 (March 2019): 190-194. (online)
“Popular Sovereignty,” in The Cambridge Habermas Lexicon, ed. Amy Allen and Eduardo Mendieta (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019), 303-306.
“Universalism in the Age of Crowds: A Short Genealogy,” in Europe and the World: World War I as Crisis of Universalism, ed. Kai Evers and David Pan (New York: Telos Press, 2018), 3-24.
“La Política Popular: Una Charla con Kevin Olson” / “Popular Politics: A Conversation with Kevin Olson,” interview with Javier Toro (published in Spanish and English), Revista Foro (Venezuela), Marzo-Abril 2018. (online Spanish / online English)
“When is the Time of Revolution? Critical Reflections on Political Insurgency,” Southern Journal of Philosophy 55, Spindel Supplement (2017): 180-199; with a response by Andrew Daily, “Polyrhythms of Revolution: A Comment on Kevin Olson’s ‘When is the Time of Revolution?'” p. 200-208.
“Populism in the Socialist Imagination,” in The Oxford Handbook of Populism, ed. C. R. Kaltwasser, P. Ochoa Espejo, P. Ostiguy, P. Taggart (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017), 661-678.
“Fragile Collectivities, Imagined Sovereignties,” in Alain Badiou, et al., What is a People? (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), 107-131. (online)
“Epistemologies of Rebellion: The Tricolor Cockade and the Problem of Subaltern Speech,” Political Theory 43:6 (2015): 730-752. (online) (Presentation of an early version at the University of Oregon; begins at 30:15.)
“Genealogy, Cryptonormativity, Interpretation,” Foucault Studies 18 (2014): 253-260. (online)
“Complexities of Political Discourse: Class, Power, and the Linguistic Turn,” in Rainer Forst, Justice, Democracy, and the Right to Justification: Rainer Forst in Dialogue (London: Bloomsbury, 2014): 87-102. (online)
“Fraser, Nancy,” in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. Michael Gibbons (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014).
“Judgment or Justification? Two Paths for Rethinking the Discursive Turn,” Constellations 20:2 (2013): 361-365. (online)
“Legitimate Speech and Hegemonic Idiom: The Limits of Deliberative Democracy in the Diversity of Its Voices,” Political Studies 59 (2011): 527-546. (online)
“Deliberative Democracy,” in Jürgen Habermas: Key Concepts, ed. Barbara Fultner (Durham: Acumen Press, 2011), 140-155.
“Reflexive Democracy as Popular Sovereignty,” in New Waves in Political Philosophy, ed. Boudewijn de Bruin and Christopher Zurn (London: Palgrave, 2009), 125-142.
“Constructing Citizens,” Journal of Politics 70:1 (2008): 40-53. (online)
“Governmental Rationality and Popular Sovereignty,” Current Perspectives in Social Theory 25 (2008): 329-352.
“Participatory Parity and Democratic Justice,” in Nancy Fraser, Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics, ed. Kevin Olson (London: Verso, 2008), 246-272. Chinese translation, trans. Zhou Suiming (Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Publishing, 2009), 244-270. Italian translation, trans. Irene Strazzeri (Lecce, Italy: Pensa, 2012). Korean translation (Seoul: Greenbee Publishing, 2015).
“Reflexivni Obcanstvi a Paradoxy Participace,” trans. Michael Hauser, Filosoficky Casopis 56:1 (2008): 77-100. [“Reflexive Citizenship and the Paradoxes of Participation,” Prague: Journal of Philosophy.]
“Adding Insult to Injury: An Introduction,” in Nancy Fraser, Adding Insult to Injury: Nancy Fraser Debates Her Critics, ed. Kevin Olson (London: Verso, 2008), 1-8. Chinese translation, trans. Zhou Suiming (Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Publishing, 2009), 1-9. Italian translation, trans. Irene Strazzeri (Lecce, Italy: Pensa, 2012). Korean translation (Seoul: Greenbee Publishing, 2015).
“Paradoxes of Constitutional Democracy,” American Journal of Political Science 51:2 (2007): 330-343. (online)
“Do Rights have a Formal Basis? Habermas’s Legal Theory and the Normative Foundations of the Law,” Journal of Political Philosophy 11:3 (2003): 273-294.
“Welfare, Democracy, and the Reflexive Legitimacy of the Law,” Studies in Law, Politics and Society 29 (2003): 97-122.
“Liberalism, Risk, and the Welfare State,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 29:3 (2003): 351-7.
“Recognizing Gender, Redistributing Labor,” Social Politics 9:3 (2002): 380-410. (online)
“Distributive Justice and the Politics of Difference,” Critical Horizons 2:1 (2001): 5-32.
“Democratic Inequalities: The Problem of Equal Citizenship in Habermas’s Democratic Theory,” Constellations 5:2 (1998): 215-233. (online)
“Habitus and Body Language: Towards a Critical Theory of Symbolic Power,” Philosophy and Social Criticism 21:2 (1995): 23-49. (online)