RealClearBooks July 7, 2026 Archives

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Is This France’s World Cup to Lose?

Anthony Dabbundo The Ringer

The Summer When Everyone Wanted a Good, Good Night

Jia Tolentino New Yorker

Can Scouting Still Raise Boys?

LuElla D’Amico The Dispatch

The End of the Working Writer

T.M. Brown Substack

‘Moby-Dick’ is the Great American Novel

Yiyun Li Financial Times

Republican Machines

Ann Manov Harper's

How Lizzo Became One of Pop Culture’s Great Flops

Spencer Kornhaber The Atlantic

The Euthanasia of the West

Michel Houellebecq UnHerd

The Drug That Made Me Want Less

Caroline Calloway Byline

Skill Nostalgia

Joshua Habgood-Coote Aeon

Pop-Stars Aren’t Born, They’re Made

Rafaela Bassili MUBI

Is 'Moby-Dick' the Greatest American Novel?

Michael Dirda LitHub

Rosalía Has the Best Live Show of the Summer

Frazier Tharpe GQ

Who Gets to Be an American Artist?

Robert Rubsam Apollo Magazine

Look Past Partisanship, and Celebrate 250 Years of Freedom

Joel Kotkin NYPost

Violence for Me, Not for Thee with

J. Peder Zane RealClearInvestigations

Down From the Underground

Nick Mamatas The Republic of Letters

Waxing Patriotic

Kazuo Robinson Substack

Pensées on the Pascal Institute

Joshua T. Katz The New Criterion

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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