This experience led him to write The Strawberry Statement, documenting the university's controversial involvement with the government's Institute for Defense Analyses.
[1] Afterward, he graduated from the New York University School of Law and moved to Washington, D.C., where he became a public defender.
His experiences in criminal courts led to his writing How Can You Defend Those People?, published by Random House in 1983.
Kunen has also written articles for The New Yorker, Newsday, and New York Times Magazine, and other notable publications.
[1] After losing employment with Time Warner as a director of communications, having worked with the company for two decades, he wrote a book called Diary of a Company Man: Losing a Job: Finding Life, published in January 2012.