RealClearBooks March 9, 2026 Archives

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The Captivating Derangement of Looksmaxxing

Becca Rothfeld The New Yorker

God Forbid ‘The Bride!’ Get a Little Motion

Adam Nayman The Ringer

Artist vs. Audience

Kat Rosenfield The Freeman

When Craft Was Enough

Joshua Doležal The Republic of Letters

Now Congress Is Coming for the Books

Ron Charles Substack

The Cinema of Societal Collapse

Vikram Murthi The Nation

The Passion of Will Self

George Monaghan The New Statesman

Whoa, Gen Z Guys, Are You Okay?

Bryn Gelbart Esquire

In Praise of Toni Morrison’s Difficulty

Edna Bonhomme The New Republic

Old Persian Calligraphy Survives

Brian T. Allen National Review

Here Comes the Substack Book

Alys Key Substack

The Incel's Veto and Other Observations

Freddie deBoer Substack

An American Prophet of the Natural World

John Kaag The American Scholar

History and the Gigantic Ginger Cat

Christopher J. Scalia Law & Liberty

The Darkness from the Darkness

William Giraldi The Baffler

Highway 61 Contains Multitudes

Jones Hogsed Romanticon

A Third Way for the Humanities

Editorial Board The Hinternet

This Emperor Had Clothes

Joseph Epstein The Washington Free Beacon

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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