RealClearBooks Week of December 8, 2025 Archives

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Monday, December 8
Chloé Zhao Has Looked Into the Void
Michael Schulman The New Yorker
The College Football Playoff Chose Outrage
Jordan Ritter Conn The Ringer
Getting Intimate With Updike
Andrew Ferguson Washington Free Beacon
Freedom in a Box
Sophia Fiedler The Metropolitan Review
Luigi Pirandello’s Broken Men
Gus O’Connor The Nation
Being a Writer in the Age of the Influencer
Rob Henderson Substack
Ken Burns' Egregious Omission
Emina Melonic Civitas Outlook
“Cozy Lit” Became the Most Shameless Form of Escapism
Greta Rainbow Walrus
Olivia Nuzzi and the Sport of Kings
Lisa Taddeo Air Mail
A Prisoner’s Cinema—A Review
Stephen Pimentel IM—1776
What Jill Lepore Knows About Harvard
Eboo Patel Persuasion
High and Halcyon Region of Magic
Bethany Tabor Romanticon
We Need More Leftist Crime Fiction
Zeb Larson Jacobin
Out of Sight
James Varney RealClearInvestigations
Mourning Routine: The Cult of Performative Work
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
It’s Still Not OK, Boomer
J. Oliver Conroy The Guardian
Rental Americanism
Gage Klipper Chronicles


Tuesday, December 9
If You Quit Social Media, Will You Read More Books?
Jay Caspian Kang New Yorker
The Best Movies of 2025
Adam Nayman The Ringer
When a House Is Not a Home
Matthew Walther Commonplace
Interpreting the New Right
John G. Grove Law & Liberty
My Search for Barbie’s Aryan Predecessor
Tarpley Hitt The Nation
Why are Americans Unhappy?
Chris Arnade Chris Arnade Walks the World
The Spirit of a Gentleman
Luke Foster Modern Age
Boring Ourselves to Death
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
There’s An AI Bubble. For Real.
Jerry Kaplan Persuasion
How Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHA
Catherine Kim Politico
The 67 Most Stylish People of 2025
Staff New York Times
Why We’re Not Chimps
Jacob Bruggeman Fusion
Within the Context of No Context, Revisited
Anton Cebalo Novum Newsletter
Tech Elites Are Starting Their Own For-Profit Cities
Hannah Murphy Financial Times
Yes, Europe’s Civilization Is Being Erased
Gavin Mortimer Spectator World
Jake Lacy Is Ready to Play the Nice Guy Again
Derek Lawrence Esquire
Last Person to Interview the Black Dahlia Murder Witness
Eli Frankel Crime Reads


Wednesday, December 10
The Last Supper: New York’s Socialist Feast
Jeff Cunningham RealClearBooks
The Streaming Wars Are Over
Alan Sepinwall The Ringer
A Nation of Subscribers
Matthew Burdette Compact
Patricia Lockwood's Inexhaustible Mind
Jack Hanson Defector
All the Nuzzi That’s Fit to Print
Valerie Pavilonis Quillette
An Age-Old Misunderstanding About Tech
Andrew Klavan & Spencer A. Klavan WPost
Our Overfitted Century
Erik Hoel The Intrinsic Perspective
Jennifer Lawrence Reinvents the ‘Cool Girl’
Rachel Tashjian CNN
The Great Eighties Wall Street Bonanza
Judge Glock Arena Magazine
The Myth Of The Tragic Troubadour
Steven Hyden Evil Speakers
Why Teach?
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
Winter 2025 Book List
Staff Cracks in Postmodernity
On Writing No. 1
Andrew Boryga & Anthony Marigold Magazine Non Grata
Free Speech and Spectacle
Saisha Agarwal The Point
Myth of Christendom Destroying Greco-Roman Classics
Nadya Williams Providence
Saints of the Middlebrow
Jon Repetti Los Angeles Review of Books
Gertrude Stein’s Preparations for the Afterlife
Evan Kindley The New Republic
Death of the MTV Generation
Noel Yaxley Chronicles
'The Quiet American' Captured the Hubris of Empire
Kevin Ruane Jacobin


Thursday, December 11
What the Warner Bros. Sale Means for the Art of Movies
Richard Brody New Yorker
The 25 Best Albums of 2025
Justin Sayles & Julianna Ress The Ringer
The Curious Case of the Bisexual Tradwife
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
The Post-Cultural State
Lola Salem Engelsberg Ideas
The Future is Flesh-and-Blood
Matthew Gasda Wisdom of Crowds
David McCullough and the Study of History
Hans Zeiger RealClearEducation
Fear and Loathing in New York
Gabrielle Schwarz The Guardian
Amtrak—National Disgrace and Quiet Success
Juan David Rojas The Liberal Patriot
The Only Sure Thing with AI
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
'Heather Cox Richardson Stole My Wife'
Blake Dodge Pirate Wires
Is Book Buying an Addiction?
Nicole James The Freeman
How to be a Man
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert The Metropolitan Review
Myth and Metaphysics
Michael Nielsen & Dylan O’Sullivan & Michael Bonner Cluny Journal
Porn Is Poisoning Our Culture
Scott Yenor City Journal
The Broken $23 Billion System That Lost Track of Migrant Kids
Maggie Miller RCI
Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan, & Fantastic Lit
David Deavel Imaginative Conservative
The Best Albums of 2025
David Hajdu The Nation
The Politics Of Superintelligence
James O'Sullivan Noema
Why Charles Murray Is Taking Religion Seriously
Erich J. Prince Merion West


Friday, December 12
Why Video Podcasts Multiplied Beyond the Man Cave
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
Dads Are the New Moms. How’s That Going?
Erin Somers GQ
Into the American Night
Adam Fleming Petty The Point
Sydney & Ethan
Selome Hailu Variety
Ownership of the Means of Thinking
Matthew B. Crawford Commonplace
Hollywood Is Turning into a Content Farm
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Revenge of the Climate Realists
Peter Savodnik The Free Press
The 10 Best Movie Performances of 2025
Stephanie Zacharek Time
An Interview With Naomi Kanakia
Sam Kahn The Republic of Letters
Why Are Interceptions Overblown Now?
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
The 50 Best 2025 Films You Might Have Missed
Staff The Film Stage
The Miraculous and Miserable City
Duncan Stuart The Metropolitan Review
K-Pop Redemption
Gage Klipper Chronicles
The Best Films of 2025
David Rooney & Jon Frosch & Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter
Newsom's ‘National Model’ for Homeless Wracked by Fraud
Ana Kasparian RCI
America Needs Free Speech. RealClear Needs You.
David DesRosiers RCPolitics
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Publishing Is Getting Smaller by The Honest Broker
Available this week: "Writer's Diary" by Matthew Gasda
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