RealClearBooks June 10, 2026 Archives

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Did AI Write a Prize-Winning Story? Does It Matter?

Katy Waldman New Yorker

The World Cup Is a Cash Grab. Fans Will Pay the Bill.

Lex Pryor The Ringer

The Patriotic Case for the World Cup

Jillian Lederman The Free Press

Of The Disco

Farahn Morgan Long Road Home

Do Plants Go to Heaven?

Emma Collins The Metropolitan Review

The Internet and Its Discontents

Tisya Mavuram The American Prospect

Reading: The Quietest Way To Disobey

Joel Miller Reason

How Jalen Brunson Became the King of New York

Ramona Shelburne ESPN

Pulp Non-Fiction

Tony Daniel IM—1776

Sydney Sweeney Says People Have No Clue Who She Is

Rebecca Ford Vanity Fair

You Who Forsake the Lord

Michael Barron The Baffler

The Rise of the UnJews

Joel Kotkin City Journal

Can Literature Uncouple From the Market?

Sam Kahn Castalia

'Kill Dick' Attempts the Great OxyContin Novel

Jonah Walters Jacobin

The Things He'll Never Say

C. Bradley Thompson The Redneck Intellectual

The Oppenheimer of AI

Walter Donway Law & Liberty

The Revolution Heard Around the World

Sophia Rosenfeld The Nation