RealClearBooks February 12, 2026 Archives

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Why Do We Like Music?

Shayla Love The New Yorker

John Oliver Keeps Pushing the Rock Up the Hill

Alan Siegel The Ringer

How Bad Bunny Mogged George Bush

Germán S. Díaz del Castillo First Things

Get Married Young

Brad Wilcox Compact

On the Clock

Lora Kelley Kismet

Selling the Sex Recession

Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases

Thomas Pynchon’s America

Benjamin Kunkel The Nation

Olympics Should Stop Pretending to Be What They’re Not

Ilya Shapiro City Journal

Wild Facts

Robert Rubsam The Baffler

Hard Boiled

Lizzy Harding Bookforum

Can We Escape AI Slavery?

Yanis Varoufakis UnHerd

We Were a Breaking News Team

Bart Schaneman The Republic of Letters

At the Winter Olympics With George Clooney

Michael Sebastian Esquire