RealClearBooks May 22, 2026 Archives

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What Did the Elon Musk vs. Sam Altman Trial Really Reveal?

Katie Baker Ringer

The Prehistory of A.I. Slop

Jill Lepore The New Yorker

The Preppy Comeback

Tim Rice The Daily Wire

When Sluts Settle Down

Kara Kennedy The Free Press

Hard Rain

Wyatt Williams Harper's

Common Readers

Selen Ozturk The Point

Why the Canon Is Worth Conserving

R. V. Young Modern Age

Art and History, Downtown, Uptown

Brian T. Allen National Review

The Case Against New York Times v. Sullivan

Carson Holloway The American Mind

Bob Dylan Does It on His Own Terms

James B. Meigs WSJ Free Expression

Gen Z’s Incompetent Converts

Stephen G. Adubato Compact

Spencer Pratt Turns L.A. Into His Reality Show

Gary Baum The Hollywood Reporter

Up, Up and Away

Kate Aurthur Variety

Rethinking Education in the AI Age

Jacob Potash The Hedgehog Review

Resort to Boulder

Will Tavlin n+1

Our Lives in the Panopticon

Albert Norton Jr. University Bookman

What We Have Lost With 'The Late Show'

Phillip Maciak The New Republic

Online Sports Gambling and Virtue

Anthony B. Bradley Acton Institute

A Record Doesn't Have to Mean Something

Sophie Kemp POW Magazine

Is Miami a Failure of the Assimilation Model?

Gil Guerra City Journal

What Exactly Do These Men Have Against Introspection?

Kevin Lincoln GQ

The Real and the Unreal

Luke Burgis The Republic

Work Will Always Matter

Chris Griswold Commonplace

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Bagel Bans by Compact

Available this week: "Colossus" by Ross Barkan

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