RealClearBooks August 5, 2026 Archives

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The Oral History of Will Ferrell, Sports Comedy Icon

Jake Kring-Schreifels The Ringer

How Jordan Harper Reinvented Noir for the Epstein Era

Peter C. Baker New Yorker

Weed Is Everywhere. For Now.

Charles Fain Lehman The Free Press

What if Freud Was Right and Pharma Was Wrong?

Scott Stossel The Atlantic

The Slow Death of Substack

Leighton Woodhouse UnHerd

Donna Haraway’s Utopian Promise

Meghan O'Gieblyn The Yale Review

Inside the Coke-Fueled Rise and Fall of VICE

Mitchell Jackson Pirate Wires

The State of Indie Literature in America

Nick Pompella The Dispatch

Ariana Grande & the Debate Over Health, Privacy & Celebrity

Julia Jacobs NYT

Reading Is Punk

Itxu Díaz Tablet

The Yale Review

Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters

Who Owns American History?

Beth English & Christopher Sellers Dissent

The Uncommitted Man

Eric Vanderwall Los Angeles Review of Books

War Is Hell—and Soldiers Bring It Home

David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics

A WWII Spy Novel That Reinvigorates the Genre

Auguste Meyrat Crisis Magazine

Two Truths and a Lie

Julia Kornberg Kismet

Over the Borderline

Emmett Rensin The Lamp Magazine

Let Everything Change

Nate Wooley n+1