RealClearBooks July 3, 2026 Archives

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The U.S. Men’s Soccer Team Is Rewriting Its History

Louisa Thomas The New Yorker

America’s Greatest Hot Dog

Alan Siegel The Ringer

How Comedy Shaped American History

Donald Liebenson Vanity Fair

Twain Town, U.S.A.

Ruth Franklin The American Scholar

An Ordinary Mind on an Ordinary Day

Michael Pollan Lapham's Quarterly

The Summer of 26 and America’s New Mass Culture

Matthew Gasda Café Américain

The Aggro-Girl Visibility of Megyn Kelly

Emma Collins A New Heaven

The Stretch of a Soul

Todd Shy The Point Magazine

The Spielberg Century

Sam Jennings The Metropolitan Review

A Plea for Art

Freddie deBoer Romanticon

The 16 Best Summer Books of 2026

Miranda Collinge Esquire

Queen of the Data Centers

Ross Barkan UnHerd

America

Dave Barry Substack

American Portals

Juan Manuel Martínez Cracks in Postmodernity

The Rise of Grocery Tourism

Nicole James The Freeman

Why Everyone Should Watch Cycling

Derek Neal The Republic of Letters

What Britain Taught Us

Daniel McCarthy The Spectator

China's Chokehold on U.S. Supply Chains

Maggie Miller RealClearInvestigations

Turley on Birthright Ruling

Ian Schwartz RealClearPolitics

Steven Spielberg’s Aliens

Stephen Kearse The Nation

A Pluralist Manifesto

Eboo Patel Persuasion

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Peace in Our Time by Compact

Available this week: "Colossus" by Ross Barkan

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