Real Clear Books Thursday

The New Phrenology - Andrew Ferguson, Weekly Standard
In Defense of (Jonathan) Haidt - Conn Carroll, Washington Examiner
ExxonMobil Got What It Wanted - James Ledbetter, American Prospect
How Fast Can They Write E-books? - Husna Haq, Christian Science Monitor
Barack Obama, Presidential Historian - Seth Mandel, Commentary
Novel Ideas for Destroying the Planet - Daniel D'Addario, NYO
Down With Richard Dawkins - Jag Bhalla, Wilson Quarterly
Serious Books Too Stubborn to Die - Jessa Crispin, Bookslut
How Low Can America Go? - Eric Posner, The New Republic
Goliath as Gentle Giant - Jeremy Lott, Splice Today

Interviews and Self-Help

Great American Books Blog - New Yorker
Get Off My Vampire's Lawn - PW
Mao: Bad Man, Good Subject - NS
Anti-Bigot Warning Label - Kirkus

Real Clear Books Wednesday

Morning Update
Whitewashing Ron Paul - James Kirchick, Daily Beast
Capturing Pat Buchanan - Scott Richert, American Spectator
Christopher Buckley, Establishmentarian - Rowan Kaiser, AV Club
Knickers in a Twist Over Arthur C. Clarke - Matthew Surridge, Splice
Sex Slaves and Suicide Bombers - Luke Samuel, Spiked Review of Books
Court Won't Dismiss Suit Against Apple - Jim Milliot, Publishers Weekly
The Book Is Dead! Long Live the Nook! - Jason Wright, Deseret News
Buzz Bissinger's Angry Father's Day Book - Dwight Garner, NYT
Yes, Virginia, There Is Literacy - Molly Driscoll, CSM
Are You Dead Yet? - Sally Satel, New Republic

Real Clear Books Tuesday

Morning Update
Wishful Thinking About America - Will Wilkinson, The Daily
Tacos More American Than Apple Pie - Gustavo Arellano, Reason
Domestic Terror Suspect With a Fan Club - Michael May, Am. Prospect
Tom Coburn on Country's New Red Menace - James Antle, Wash Times
Are Writers No Longer Influenced by Classics? - Alison Flood, Guardian
Those Salesmen Just Keep Dying - Wilborn Hampton, Huffington Post
I Live in the Basement and Do Nothing - Roger Rosenblatt, NY Times
The Stubborn Persistence of Textbooks - Curt Hopkins, Ars Technica
Robert Reich Is Beyond Outraged - Paul Constant, The Stranger
Bride From Bangladesh - Ellen Wernecke, AV Club

Real Clear Books Monday

Morning Update
Sex Sells, Even in Christian Bookstores - Jeff Schapiro, Christian Post
Vito the Lionhearted - George De Stefano, New York Journal of Books
Orson Scott Card, Conservative Grouch - Alexander Nazaryan, NYDN
Something New in Southern Fiction - Jackie Cooper, Huffington Post
Hunger Games: Panem and Circuses - Stanley Fish, New York Times
Ross Douthat, Meet Norman Mailer - Paul Baumann, Wash Monthly
Pius XI's War-Torn Papacy - José Sánchez, America Magazine
Free Market Frustrations - Samuel Brittan, Financial Times
Spy Another Day - Paula Woods, Los Angeles Times
Mieville's 'Moby Dick' Parody - Chris Hsiang, io9

Real Clear Books Saturday

Morning Update
The Breivik Veto - Michael Moynihan, Weekly Standard
A Bizarrely Sympathetic Hitler Bio - Steve Donoghue, National
Secret History of the Pacific Northwest - Paul Constant, The Stranger
Wrong Turn on the Road to Serfdom - Nicole Russell, Washington Times
Indie Bookstore Saved by a Tweet - Husna Haq, Christian Science Monitor
Take This Sci-Fi Novel Seriously - David Bowden, Spiked Review of Books
The Beatles As You've Never Seen Them - Arne Bellstorf, Huffington Post
Literary Journalism Is Dull and Vapid - D.G. Myers, Commentary
Read C.S. Lewis, Then Bugger Off - Jessa Crispin, Barnes & Noble
It Was the Summer of '68 - Russ Smith, Splice Today

Real Clear Books Friday

Morning Update
The World That America Built - Mark Leonard, New Statesman
Is Democracy Ready for Salafism? - Samuel Helfont, New Republic
When the Nazis Burned Books - Steve King, Barnes & Noble Review
William S. Burroughs's Koran Cut-Up - Richard Marcus, Seattle P-I
Harry Potter Comes to Kindle - Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times
Extreme Pilgrim Tourism - Bob Blaisdell, Christian Science Monitor
You Are What You Refuse to Eat - Philip Jenkins, Books & Culture
Alien vs. Predator, the Poem - George Pendle, Financial Times
Robert Caro's Bloated LBJ Bio - Erik Nelson, Salon
Oregon Tale - Jeremy Lott, American Spectator

Real Clear Books Thursday

Morning Update
Americans Don't Need the Left's Pity - Daniel Ben-Ami, Spiked Review
Solitary Confinement Is / No Place for a Poet - A.L. Kennedy, Guardian
Robert Caro Lightens Up on LBJ - Robert Weisbrot, The American Prospect
Dostoevsky & Shakespeare at My Fingertips - Mark Judge, Acculturated
Maurice Sendak Helped Kids Grow Up - Dwight Garner, New York Times
What's Stephen Colbert Done This Time? - Adam Mansbach, Daily Beast
Glenn Beck Reissues LDS Thriller, Minus Mormonism - Kat Stoeffel, NYO
Wendell Berry's Inhumane Lecture - Matthew Franck, First Things Mag
The Man Behind Real Housewives - Vinton Rafe McCabe, NYJB
The Linguist as Relativist - Laura Marsh, The New Republic