RealClearBooks August 17, 2026 Archives

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‘The End of Oak Street’ Is All Bite

Adam Nayman The Ringer

Rachel Cusk’s Protest Against Personhood

Becca Rothfeld The New Yorker

Eric Hobsbawm's Age of Contradictions

John Merrick UnHerd

Literature Created Behind the Scene

Joseph Epstein Washington Free Beacon

Revolutionary Blues

Brendon O'Connor The Metropolitan Review

You Don’t Have to Use AI

Brad East The New Atlantis

'The End of Oak Street' Is an Exercise in Dino Terror

Peter Suderman Reason

What Locke Knew About Elites

Teresa M. Bejan Persuasion

The Embrace of Complexity

Naomi Schaefer Riley Commentary

The Joy of Baseball

Daniel Darling Substack

Rachel Aviv and the Strange Gifts of Motherhood

Grace Byron SSENSE

A Short Intro to Miguel Gomes, Portrait of a Gentleman

Nate West Substack

What Makes Elite Athletes Tick?

Eli Kronenberg The Dispatch

‘The Amateur’ Is an Ambiguous, Confusing Read

Diane Scharper DC Examiner

Young Male Novelists & the Death of American Culture

George P. Cross Chronicles

There’s Something Dangerous About Sam Rockwell

Kevin Dupzyk Esquire

Hamas’ Attack on Israel Is Transforming Politics

Benjamin Weingarten RCI

The Future Is for Everyone — or Could Be

Ron Charles Substack

The Cowboy Diplomacy of Dory Funk Jr.

David Gornoski The American Conservative