RealClearBooks August 3, 2026 Archives

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When “Get Lucky” Took Me Back to the Years of Disco

Lucy Sante The New Yorker

This Time, Teams Could Have Stopped the Dodgers

Ben Lindbergh The Ringer

Glen Hansard Made Music Feel Alive

Spencer Klavan The Free Press

We Are All Bryan Johnson now

Matthew Gasda UnHerd

A Literary Celebration of America

David Hiroshi Jager New York Sun

Caution: Woke Detour Ahead

Alan Pell Crawford Washington Free Beacon

Weed Is the New Booze

Mary Julia Koch WSJ Free Expression

What Happens When a Pop Star Wants to Hide?

Hattie Lindert POW Magazine

The Racial Crossroads

Helen Andrews Compact

Adopt AI or Die?

Jacob Bacharach The New Republic

The Filmography That Launched a Thousand Ships

Benedek Kruchió LARB

How to be a Bard

Justin Patrick Moore Romanticon

Is It Okay to Not Like 'The Odyssey'?

Josh Rosenberg Esquire

The 32 Best American Movies of the 1980s, Year By Year

Jesse Hassenger GQ

After the Post-Avant-Garde

Sean Tatol The Point

The Folly of "Golden Age" Dreams

Miles Smith IV Law & Liberty

The Poetry of Independence

James Matthew Wilson Modern Age

The End of the Summer Job

Allen Mendenhall The Freeman

The Indiscreet Charm of a Royal Dunce

Efrén Ordóñez Garza Southwest Review