Week of February 25, 2019 Archives

RealClearBooks AM Update

Monday, February 25
Posthumanism for an Inhuman World
Aaron Winslow Los Angeles Review of Books
A Nuclear Disaster on Soviet watch
Joseph C. Goulden Washington Times
Tidying Up is Another Misuse of Eastern Ideas
Amy Olberding Aeon
A New Theory Says Humans Tamed Themselves
Melvin Konner The Atlantic
Why Jack the Ripper Matters Less Than His Victims
Rebecca Rideal New Statesman
The Once and Future Bolaño
Sean Alan Cleary Public Books
The Star of the Silken Screen
David Salle New York Review of Books
Filmmaker Michael Mann on Paul LeRoux
Michael Mann Entertainment Weekly
Ennio Morricone Settles Old Scores
Dalya Alberge The Guardian
What Made Cleopatra's Red Lips So Kissable?
Mark Mason Daily Mail


Tuesday, February 26
Dickens Tried to Place His Wife in an Asylum
John Bowen Times Literary Supplement
Did Pope's Advisers Push Gay Church Exposé?
Damian Thompson The Spectator
South Korea Is Risking Its U.S. Alliance
Gordon G. Chang Encounter Books
The Jeff Bezos of the Dark Web
Eric Spitznagel New York Post
In Nature, Being Inconspicuous Is Power
John Kaag Wall Street Journal
Appalachia Responds to "Hillbilly Elegy"
Dwight Garner New York Times
Constitutional “Moments” You Can Believe In
Kevin Gutzman Law & Liberty
Lightweightâ??Lincoln
Allen C. Guelzo National Review
On the Novels of John Williams
B.D. McClay The Baffler
Rosy Population Trends in an Ageing World
Robin Lustig The World Today


Wednesday, February 27
What the Ancient Greeks Did For Us
Ian Sansom The Spectator
Jon Meacham's Star Wars Theory of History
Philip A. Wallach The American Interest
The Slave Girl Who Became a Poster Child
Jesse Morgan-Owens Smithsonian
Confessions of a Rogue Nuclear Regulator
Katie Tubb National Review
Why Those Born Rich Excel in Elite Jobs
Joe Pinsker The Atlantic
In Search of Earthly Paradise
Christoph Irmscher Wall Street Journal
Are Robots Competing for Your Job?
Jill Lepore New Yorker
A True Story of Murder in Northern Ireland
Roddy Doyle New York Times
From the Archives: The Real Michael Gerson
Matthew Scully The Atlantic


Thursday, February 28
How Translation Obscured the Music of the Bible
Robert Alter Aeon
Draining the Swamp
Michael Anton Claremont Review of Books
How Cruelty Made Us Human
Barbara J. King Times Literary Supplement
Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
Derek Thompson The Atlantic
How Tech Has Fueled the Attack on Expertise
Barton Swaim Wall Street Journal
Counter-Histories of the Internet
Marta Figlerowicz Public Books
Intel on Pakistan from The Top
Amy Khan The World Today
Love 'Roma'? Here Are 3 Books on Mexican Cinema
Concepción de León NYT
The Trauma Caused by Distance from Nature
Ephrat Livni Quartz


Friday, March 1
Up From Consumerism
Daniel Kishi The American Conservative
Kafka's Trial Continues
Devorah Baum History Today
Houellebecq: Chronicler of Our Mass Incompetence
Theodore Dalrymple Law & Liberty
How a Rogue Tech Genius Built a Drug Empire
Elaine Shannon RealClearBooks
1950s Spy Chief Used Debutante Daughter to Recruit Agents
Roger Lewis Daily Mail
The Era of Limited Government Is Over
Ross Douthat New York Times
David Pryce-Jones on Arthur Koestler
David Pryce-Jones Standpoint Magazine
Auden on No-Platforming Ezra Pound
Edward Mendelson New York Review of Books
Rebirth of the Body Politic
Ian Tewksbury & Nick Romeo Aeon
How Our Founders Understood Equality
Robert Curry RealClearBooks
Cass Sunstein's Unpersuasive 'On Freedom'
Richard A. Epstein Wall Street Journal
Kenneth Pollack's New History of Arab Armies
Dov S. Zakheim The National Interest
Charles Dickens Tried to Send His Wife to an Asylum
Palko Karasz NYT
Monday, March 4
Donald Trump the Paradox
Victor Davis Hanson The Spectator
On Gordon Wood's 'Friends Divided'
Richard Samuelson Claremont Review of Books
Frederick Douglass' Reading List
Jaime Fuller Lapham's Quarterly
Robert Schiller on the Best Books on Capitalism and Human Nature
Five Books
Too Much Democracy?
Daniel DiSalvo City Journal
The Collected Schizophrenias
Emily LaBarge Los Angeles Review of Books
Lee Miller: Too Colorful for Black and White
Whitney Scharer The Telegraph
How the Man of Reason Got Radicalized
Adam Gopnik New Yorker
Embracing Animal Emotions
Sy Montgomery New York Times


©2019 RealClearBooks | Go to full site