James Harris Jackson, the White supremacist who killed 66-year-old Timothy Caughman in New York City in hopes of starting a race war, will spend life in prison without parole.

A 1952 review of Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” explores how the novel confronts progressive racism.

David Brooks is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the author of How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen.