RealClearBooks April 20, 2026 Archives

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Justin Bieber Rises Again at Coachella

Vinson Cunningham The New Yorker

A Deep Dive Into the Sam Altman–vs.–Elon Musk Trial

Katie Baker The Ringer

The Real Reason Gen Z Yearns for Vinyl

Bellamy Richardson Esquire

Larry McMurtry’s Tall Tales

Gus O’Connor The Nation

Into the Woods

Kara Kennedy Washington Free Beacon

My Struggle (to Publication)

Ross Barkan Political Currents

Clavicular: The digital Dorian Gray

Cosmo Adair UnHerd

Lena Dunham Reveals All

Emma Brockes Air Mail

"Colossus" is Barkan's Best Novel Yet

Alexander Sorondo Substack

Tone Is Not a Virtue

Heather R. Higgins RealClearPolicy

Publishing Has an AI Problem

Alexander Larman The Critic

Justin Bieber (Adonis)

Sean Thor Conroe Cracks in Postmodernity

The Marijuana Backlash Is Here

Kevin Sabet Compact

Who Is Blake Whiting?

Andrew Lawler The American Scholar

Wall or Sieve?

Benjamin Weingarten RealClearInvestigations

The Invention of the Soul

Nicholas Humphrey Aeon

A Film That Reminds Us Who We Are

John Zmirak Chronicles

'Outcome' Is Jonah Hill’s Inept Hollywood Satire

Eileen Jones Jacobin

Who's Pulling the Strings?

Madeline Summerville Maddie’s Hot Take

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: More American Than the Pope? by Compact

Available this week: "Rage and the Republic" by Jonathan Turley

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