RealClearBooks Week of May 25, 2026 Archives

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Monday, May 25

The Passing of Bob Woodson

Joshua Mitchell RealClearBooks

How Good Is This World Cup Squad, Really?

Leander Schaerlaeckens The New Yorker

Judson’s Last Ride

Sean Trende RealClearPolitics

America’s Marvelous Mythology

Austin Ruse Modern Age

Leaving Stones Unturned

Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon

Bob Dylan and the Beatles

Rob Weinert-Kendt America Magazine

Marked Down

Nicole Lipman n+1

Millennial Hipster Jesus

Chris Jesu Lee The Metropolitan Review

Cosmetic Surgery’s False Promises

Sarah Jane Souther WSJ Free Expression

Alasdair Macintyre Was Right All Along

Ben Cobley UnHerd

In Bloomers: Olivia Rodrigo’s Un-Grunge Dilemma

Gabrielle Minoli POW Magazine

Wallace Shawn Isn’t Ready to Die

Greta Rainbow Interview Magazine

The Enhanced Games Are a Scam on Steroids

Dave Braneck Jacobin

'The Odyssey' Increasingly Looks Like An Epic Disaster

Auguste Meyrat Federalist

Stephen Colbert Signed Off in Perfect, Absurdist Fashion

Eric Francisco Esquire

Is Everyone Using AI Better Than Me?

Foster Kamer GQ

Tuesday, May 26

The Caitlin Clark Machine Is Turning on Caitlin

Seerat Sohi The Ringer

The Transformation of Elina Svitolina

Louisa Thomas The New Yorker

Barthelme, the Houstonian

Susan Choi The Paris Review

Made For These Times

David Polansky Strange Frequencies

A Man for All Seasons

Graham Daseler Quillette

An Allegiance to Ghosts

Richard M. Reinsch II Law & Liberty

The Rebooted Animal Farm’s New Villain: Capitalism

Titus Techera Civitas Outlook

Blame French Theory? In this Economy?

Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack

Jack Kerouac: The Pseudo-Saint of Mindfulness

Josh Milton-Bell Liberties Journal

Does Looksmaxxing Give Women the Ick?

Rob Henderson Substack

Boy Girl Problems

Grace Byron The Baffler

Fidel at a Distance, Raúl Closer

Roger Simon American Refugees

Cannes and the Language of Exile

Agnès Poirier Engelsberg Ideas

A few Thoughts About Truth

Roger Kimball Substack

Washington’s Farewell Address Fulfilled the Declaration

Daniel McCarthy Daily Signal

On Howard Pyle’s “Otto of the Silver Hand”

David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative

Butterfly’s Wings

Anne Pedersen Alta Online

Only Fact

Rowland Bagnall Los Angeles Review of Books

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Bagel Bans by Compact

Available this week: "Colossus" by Ross Barkan

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