RealClearBooks July 9, 2026 Archives

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Why Every Remaining Team Will—and Won’t—Win

Anthony Dabbundo The Ringer

The Rise of the “As Seen on TikTok” Sticker

Brady Brickner-Wood The New Yorker

No Country for Nihilism

Michael Brendan Dougherty National Review

The End of Reading Is Here

Rose Horowitch The Atlantic

Two Hundred and Fifty

Stephanie Wambugu The Paris Review

Julius Evola’s Many Lives

Mark Sedgwick Compact

The Work of Hydration

Oliver Bateman Oliver Bateman Does the Work

The Perfect Moment

Chris Randle Dirt

Finding the Art in the Beautiful Game

T.M. Brown CNN

Crying at the Trampoline Park

Andrew Boryga Dwell

Effects of Divorce Through the Eyes of 2 Novelists

Naomi Schaefer Riley Deseret

Leo’s Augustinian Encyclical

Peter Keepman Modern Age

How Much Is AI Manipulating Us?

Roger Simon American Refugees

Cries of the Damned

Souli Boutis Kismet

The Constitution and the Right to Reputation

Derek Parker The American Spectator

A Hundred Miles Down the Road

Lillian Wang Selonick Substack

The Bonfire of Open Borders

Mark Pulliam Chronicles

Jamie Muscato, King of the West End

Lily Ford The Hollywood Reporter

The Seeing Stones of Modern Warfare

Henry T. Edmondson III Law & Liberty

On 'Country of Lords'

Hamilton Cain On The Seawall

How Not to Rise to the Occasion

Aaron Timms The Hedgehog Review

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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