Style Over Substance?

Was Michael Kinsley unethical as a judge for not reading all the nominees for this year’s National Book Awards? “The job of a book-awards judge starts with bookicide. Once you’ve decided a nonfiction book could not possibly win – because, say, its first 50 pages stink – you’re free to toss it. There’s no further reporting obligation. Kinsley appears to have leaped way over the line if he didn’t read even the opening pages of many nominated books…