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Six Essential Story Lines for the World Baseball Classic

The sport’s international juggernauts are not messing around

The Self-Serving Seduction of 'Vladimir'

The new Netflix series stars Rachel Weisz as a professor whose lust for a younger colleague renews her lust for life itself—and drives her to alarming extremes.

Steve Carell Found Himself Again in 'Rooster'
Eric Francisco, Esquire
Mission Accomplished. For Now
Neal B. Freeman, National Review
What We Lose When We Gamify Reading
Marissa Levien, LitHub
Transparency
John Murawski, RealClearInvestigations
Can the Dictionary Keep Up?
Lora Kelley, The Nation
Do Normies Have a Right to Read 'Heated Rivalry' Fanfic?
Katherine Dee, GQ
Psycho Masculinity
Henry Begler, The New Statesman
Becoming All-American
Titus Techera, Civitas Outlook
Gotta Serve Somebody
Philip Freeman, The Metropolitan Review
In Vino Veritas
Will Diana, The Republic of Letters
The Poetry of Love
John Poch, Slant Books
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Compact Podcast by Compact
Available this week: "Rage and the Republic" by Jonathan Turley
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American Civics

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America’s Civic Values Outweigh its Divisions
Americans of all backgrounds overwhelmingly support a core set of legal and constitutional obligations.
David McCullough and the Study of History
One of the greatest weeks of my life was the week David McCullough came to teach a one-credit course at Hillsdale College in 2006.

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Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin
The Long Road to Juneteenth
Lincoln’s Prophetic Statesmanship with Edward Erler

Censorship

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May Aliens Be Deported Based on Their Speech?
The answer, oddly, isn't settled.
The COVID-era Smearing—and Resurrection—of Trump NIH Appointee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Bhattacharya’s path from health policy scholar to NIH director nominee is pockmarked with craters from missiles launched to destroy his scientific credibility by NIH leaders and their minions in academia.

In the News

Multimedia

Zuckerberg Ending Censorship on Facebook: "The Fact-Checkers Have Just Been Too Politically Biased"
John Kerry Tells WEF: Our First Amendment Stands As A Major Block Against Hammering Disinformation Out of Existence
House Committee Rips State Department Over Censorship

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The Forgotten Oscar Darlings

An Academy Award is the crowning achievement for any film—but a win won’t necessarily immortalize it forever. Here are the movies across Oscars history whose statuettes have long gathered dust.

Chris Fleming Prances, Scuttles, and Undulates Onto HBO

In a new standup set, the comedian uses oddball physicality to locate the weird in the everyday.

Come On, Ailing: What Eileen Gu Stole From America
Maxwell Meyer, Pirate Wires
Harry Styles Is One of Us
Sophie Heawood, Runner's World
Advice to Young Writers
Blake Nelson, The Republic of Letters
What I Learned About Men in My All-Male Book Club
Kristopher Jansma, LitHub
Fiction Still Needs Defending
Alanna Schubach, Substack
'Scream 7' Is More Tedious Meta-Horror Fan Service
Eileen Jones, Jacobin
Why Zoomers Are Obsessed With the Kennedys
Poppy Sowerby, UnHerd
Why Not Timothée?
David Canfield, The Hollywood Reporter
‘The Bride!’ Review
Owen Gleiberman, Variety
The Need for Judgment
Philip K. Howard, Law & Liberty
A Fighting Chance
Stephanie Cuepo Wobby, The Baffler
This ‘Screwtape for Our Times’ Will Challenge You
Brad East, Christianity Today
The Many Lives of Michelle Yeoh
Raymond Ang, GQ

Six Essential Story Lines for the World Baseball Classic

The sport’s international juggernauts are not messing around

The Self-Serving Seduction of 'Vladimir'

The new Netflix series stars Rachel Weisz as a professor whose lust for a younger colleague renews her lust for life itself—and drives her to alarming extremes.

Steve Carell Found Himself Again in 'Rooster'

Eric Francisco, Esquire

One of the best reasons to attend college is to have the space to remake yourself. The campus grounds are an open terrarium for growth and... Read More

Mission Accomplished. For Now

Neal B. Freeman, National Review

My old friend Ed Feulner, the man who built the Heritage Foundation from the ground up, used to say that in politics, “there are... Read More

What We Lose When We Gamify Reading

Marissa Levien, LitHub

At the dawn of 2026, I spent an irresponsible amount of time cataloguing what I did in 2025. There are so many ways to aggregate a... Read More

Transparency

John Murawski, RealClearInvestigations

A few weeks before Christmas in 2022, Amber Lavigne was cleaning her 13-year-old’s bedroom when she stumbled upon her daughter’s... Read More

Can the Dictionary Keep Up?

Lora Kelley, The Nation

In 2014, at a small Stanford University lecture hall, the Merriam-Webster editor Peter Sokolowski introduced the crowd of assembled nerds to... Read More

Do Normies Have a Right to Read 'Heated Rivalry' Fanfic?

Katherine Dee, GQ

Last week, New York magazine published a cover story on Heated Rivalry and fujoshi, a Japanese term for women who love stories about sex and... Read More

Psycho Masculinity

Henry Begler, The New Statesman

American Psycho has the distinction of being the last novel to cause a true moral panic. Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 glimpse into the... Read More

Becoming All-American

Titus Techera, Civitas Outlook

Most of the year’s Oscar movies are fairly typical of the new trend to reduce art to ideology, some more concerned with race (Sinners,... Read More

Gotta Serve Somebody

Philip Freeman, The Metropolitan Review

A woman stands on a stage under harsh, punishing red light, wearing a black skirt over tight black pants.  Read More

In Vino Veritas

Will Diana, The Republic of Letters

Corporate America sucks. The job, whatever it is, could be accomplished by a high schooler with moderate emotional maturity. The... Read More

The Poetry of Love

John Poch, Slant Books

The Future of Love is your eighth collection of poems. How is it different than your other collections? My last collection, a selected... Read More

American Civics

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Essential Reading

America’s Civic Values Outweigh its Divisions
Americans of all backgrounds overwhelmingly support a core set of legal and constitutional obligations.
David McCullough and the Study of History
One of the greatest weeks of my life was the week David McCullough came to teach a one-credit course at Hillsdale College in 2006.

In the News

Multimedia

Why Civics Education Is America’s New Flashpoin
The Long Road to Juneteenth
Lincoln’s Prophetic Statesmanship with Edward Erler

Censorship

Sponsored Curation Powered By:

Essential Reading

May Aliens Be Deported Based on Their Speech?
The answer, oddly, isn't settled.
The COVID-era Smearing—and Resurrection—of Trump NIH Appointee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Bhattacharya’s path from health policy scholar to NIH director nominee is pockmarked with craters from missiles launched to destroy his scientific credibility by NIH leaders and their minions in academia.

In the News

Multimedia

Zuckerberg Ending Censorship on Facebook: "The Fact-Checkers Have Just Been Too Politically Biased"
John Kerry Tells WEF: Our First Amendment Stands As A Major Block Against Hammering Disinformation Out of Existence
House Committee Rips State Department Over Censorship

More From Real Clear

Myths from the Earth's Edge
DJ Casper's 'Cha Cha Slide'
The Bridge Scene from William Friedkin's "Sorcerer"
"The French Connection" Car Chase

RealClearBooks Thursday

The Forgotten Oscar Darlings

An Academy Award is the crowning achievement for any film—but a win won’t necessarily immortalize it forever. Here are the movies across Oscars history whose statuettes have long gathered dust.

Chris Fleming Prances, Scuttles, and Undulates Onto HBO

In a new standup set, the comedian uses oddball physicality to locate the weird in the everyday.

Come On, Ailing: What Eileen Gu Stole From America

Maxwell Meyer, Pirate Wires

In one of the first hockey games at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, the United States beat China 8-0. This was not exactly a surprise;... Read More

Harry Styles Is One of Us

Sophie Heawood, Runner's World

Harry Styles is asking for advice. He’d been nervous about today, almost couldn’t believe it was happening. But excited too, to... Read More

Advice to Young Writers

Blake Nelson, The Republic of Letters

In high school, I was a huge Rolling Stones fan. I remember reading that their second guitarist, Mick Taylor (who replaced Brian Jones), had... Read More

What I Learned About Men in My All-Male Book Club

Kristopher Jansma, LitHub

It’s a Tuesday night and after work I’m meeting up with six other guys at a nearby British pub for a couple of pints and some... Read More

Fiction Still Needs Defending

Alanna Schubach, Substack

A few weeks ago I taught a creative writing class to a group of teenagers from an international high school. They hailed from all over the... Read More

'Scream 7' Is More Tedious Meta-Horror Fan Service

Eileen Jones, Jacobin

The old horror movie franchise Scream is still going strong, with Scream 7 playing in theaters and making so much money... Read More

Why Zoomers Are Obsessed With the Kennedys

Poppy Sowerby, UnHerd

You can’t pop to Trader Joe’s for a pint of milk these days without having to fight through squadrons of Carolyn Bessette... Read More

Why Not Timothée?

David Canfield, The Hollywood Reporter

For his most visible Q&A during final Oscar voting, live on stage before an audience including Academy members, Timothée Chalamet... Read More

‘The Bride!’ Review

Owen Gleiberman, Variety

It’s alive! I’m talking about the legend of “Frankenstein.” I thought the reanimated corpse of it came close to... Read More

The Need for Judgment

Philip K. Howard, Law & Liberty

Social trust is a barometer for the health of society. A trusting society is more energetic, more collaborative, and more hopeful. America,... Read More

A Fighting Chance

Stephanie Cuepo Wobby, The Baffler

When the check arrived, Carlos “The Ronin” Newton was at home in Newmarket, Ontario. It was 2012, two years after his last... Read More

This ‘Screwtape for Our Times’ Will Challenge You

Brad East, Christianity Today

The Body of This Death is difficult to classify. Authored by Ross McCullough, a theologian in the Honors Program at George Fox... Read More

The Many Lives of Michelle Yeoh

Raymond Ang, GQ

Never bet against Michelle Yeoh. Over a four-decade long career that’s taken her from wuxia epics to A24 indies to big-budget movie... Read More

Movies

What’s a Big-Budget Filmmaker Without the Budget?

The Ringer

It doesn’t matter what a filmmaker’s résumé looks like: If they string together enough flops, they’re liable to land in “director jail,” the dreaded vocational abyss in which studios no longer trust them with projects. (Some filmmakers always seem to escape director jail, no matter how many times their movies bomb; what’s the secret, Robert Zemeckis?) While it’s possible to spring ... Read More

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Music

Why Do We Like Music?

The New Yorker

Forty years ago, Bill Weiss, a student at Columbia University, went to see James Galway, a virtuoso Irish flutist, perform at the 92nd Street Y. Weiss had recently earned an A in a required musical-humanities course, and he thought that at the show he might finally feel moved by great music—an experience that had, until then, evaded him. His seat was in the front row. “I got to see the look of... Read More

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Television

The Streaming Wars Are Over

The Ringer

In late August 2020, 20 episodes of a Karate Kid lega-sequel series called Cobra Kai appeared on Netflix. The show was an instant smash, rocketing to the top of Netflix’s trending charts. Four months later, another batch of 10 episodes debuted, and fans from Gen X to Gen Z raved about what a great job Netflix had done in bringing the beloved franchise back to life. ... Read More

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