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In an outstanding year for serious nonfiction, these writers excelled at shedding light on complex and underexplored topics

Was the feel-good story of a White couple welcoming a talented Black teen into their family just a sham? Stephen L. Carter comments

Chief Justice John Roberts gets few things right in his majority opinion and lots of things wrong, writes Stephen L. Carter

I keep reading that 2022 was the year of peak woke. If true, the surmise will spark either joy or sorrow, depending on predisposition. For the wordsmith, however, the intriguing question is not whether wokeism is on the decline; it’s how the word acq...

So black is now Black. In the wake of the protests after the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and too many others, editors everywhere have decreed with sudden and remarkable unanimity that the formerly common adjective referring to African-Am...

As statues come down everywhere and right-of-centre pundits waggle their fingers and say they told us so, it is important to try to draw distinctions. After all, when you topple George Washington from his pedestal — which many argued would never happ...

Although opinion polls currently put President Donald Trump’s approval among black voters at between 20 and 30 per cent, most experts doubt that anything like that proportion of the black vote will go to Trump on Election Day. Yes, strange things hap...

Oh, but we live in sour times. The Super Bowl next month will feature the Most Hated Team in Football against an opponent who got there because of the Worst Call in Play-off History. Of the hatred, I have nothing at present to say. Let’s talk about t...

Palpatine has perished, the Governor has fallen, Voldemort has been defeated, the virus has brought down the mother ship. The Rohan have survived the assault on Helm’s Deep, Voyager has survived its transit through Borg space, Westeros has survived t...

Allow me to confess a shameful secret: I am constantly losing track of Game of Thrones characters. This debility afflicts me particularly during the long winters between seasons. When someone who vanished from the story years ago suddenly reappears, ...