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 whethe...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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 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 vani...
There is a wonderful story midway through Can’t Anybody Here Play This Game?, Jimmy Breslin’s 1963 book about the delightfully awful first season of the New York Mets. In the midst of a spectacular lo...
