RealClearBooks July 13, 2026 Archives

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Our Plastic-Surgery Nightmare

Jia Tolentino The New Yorker

The WNBA Is Losing Control of Its Own Story

Seerat Sohi The Ringer

The End of Going Out

Matthew Gasda UnHerd

A Free-Speech Meltdown

Gal Beckerman The Atlantic

The Theology of Emily Brontë

Virginia Karnstein The Republic of Letters

There’s an Ancient Solution to Our Modern Crisis of Attention

S.J. Murray NYTimes

The Lost Art of Being a Regular

Mark Alan Burger Esquire

Soundtracks to Argentina’s Democracy

José Natanson The Ideas Letter

If You Fired Your Agent

Greta Rainbow Dirt

Futures and Pasts: Éric Rohmer’s Élisabeth

Nick Pinkerton Metrograph

20 Questions: David Sedaris

Nick Hilden The Playboy Reader

How Social Media Became Antisocial

Andrey Mir City Journal

Small Island, Big Crime

Micah Mattix Washington Free Beacon

Two Interviews: An Author and a Painter

Chris Arnade Chris Arnade Walks the World

An Irreverent Defense of the Classics

Matthew K. Reising Law & Liberty

Patrick Radden Keefe Is a Masterful Storyteller

Leigh Stein Substack

Yet Another Take on the Masculinity Crisis

Nikos Mohammadi Cracks in Postmodernity

Young Washington Shows the Way Forward for Hollywood

David P. Deavel AMAC

Spielberg’s Empty Hope

Titus Techera Civitas Outlook

The Greatest Rock ’n‘ Roll Band in the World

Eric Vanderwall National Review

'Citizen Kane' at 85

Charlton Allen The American Thinker

U.S. Much Safer Than Many Peer Nations

John R. Lott Jr. RealClearInvestigations

The Hydration-Break World Cup

Jonathan Wilson The Paris Review

Real Canadian DNA

Ariella Garmaise n+1