Week of March 18, 2019 Archives

RealClearBooks AM Update

Monday, March 18
Embracing the Strangeness of the Bible
Eric Ormsby Wall Street Journal
How Alex Honnold Conquered El Capitan
Blair Braverman New York Times
The Books That Won’t Die
Sharon Marcus & Lorraine Daston Chronicle of Higher Education
The "Slippery, Often Baffling" Writings of Søren Kierkegaard
Clare Carlisle TLS
The Neanderthal Renaissance
Rebecca Wragg Sykes Aeon
What Are the Real Fault Lines Dividing Americans?
George Hawley Law & Liberty
Smith, Kant and de Gaulle
Stuart Sweeney History Today
An Interview with Dave Eggers
LIsa O'Kelly The Guardian
Poet W.S. Merwin Dies At 91
Noah Adams NPR


Tuesday, March 19
The Man Who Murdered the English Language
Emily Temple LitHub
Defending Guns: A Fading Freedom?
Brendan Patrick Purdey Law & Liberty
The Nazi Origins of Asperger's Spectrum
Michele Pridmore-Brown LRB
The Strange Politics of Gertrude Stein
Barbara Will Humanities
Americans Are Divided by Views on Race, Not Race Itself
Eric Kaufmann NYT
Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Pyrrhic Victory
Coleman Hughes Quillette
The Lost Futures of Mark Fisher
Ben Sixsmith University Bookman
The Free-Thinking, Soul-Nourishing Rembrandt
Brian T. Allen National Review
Maria Popova's Biographical Mélange Falls Short
Laura Miller Slate


Wednesday, March 20
Belief in Aliens Could Be America's Next Religion
Clare Coffey The Outline
The Reich Without End
Thomas Meaney New Statesman
Rising Above a Culture of Contempt
John R. Coyne Jr. Washington Times
Confronting Philosophy's Anti-Semitism
Laurie Shrage New York Times
Why Spinoza Was Excommunicated
Steven Nadler Humanities
Children of Light in an Age of Darkness
Randy Boyagoda Modern Age
Trumpism, Nationalism, and Conservatism
Chris DeMuth Claremont Review of Books
Competing Conceptions Ordered Liberty
Aaron N. Coleman Law & Liberty
Does Talking About Books Make Us More Cosmopolitan?
Tim Parks NYROB


Thursday, March 21
The End of the World Is Coming and You Are Responsible
Sean Cooper Tablet
Moral Zealotry and the Seductive Nature of Evil
Spencer Case Quillette
I Am an Immigrant. Someday You Might Be One, Too
Laila Lalami NYT
Building a Better Nationalism
Yael Tamir Foreign Affairs
Jeremy Corbyn: A Dreary Ideologue in Full
Theodore Dalrymple Law & Liberty
The Soviet Union's Master Spy
Nicholas Shakespeare The Spectator
A Remarkable Look at the Long Arc of European History
Stephen Moss The Guardian
The Past and Future of the American Strike
Rich Yeselson The Nation
A Compelling Case for Constitutional Originalism
Kyle Sammin National Review
Amazon Censors Anti-Vaccine Books
Lindsey Bever Washington Post
New Narnia Chapter the World May Never See
David Sanderson The Times


Friday, March 22
Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
Paul Dean The New Criterion
One Bible's 500-Year Journey
Gabino Iglesias NPR
Hannah Arendt is the Philosopher for Right Now
Lyndsey Stonebridge New Statesman
Our Culture of Contempt
Arthur Brooks New York Times
The Election Season Hack You Never Heard About
Luke Rosiak RealClearBooks
Reagan and Thatcher Then — and Now
Matthew Continetti National Review
Tinker Traitor Communist Spy
Michael Taube Claremont Review of Books
The Chernobyl Syndrome
Sophie Pinkham New York Review of Books
Extending Judeo-Christian Values and Greek Reason
John R. Coyne Jr. Wash. Times
The Self-Made Man
Manisha Sinha Times Literary Supplement
What Happened to Walter Benjamin's Black Suitcase?
Giorgio van Straten Aeon
Why Polynesia Is Still One of the World's Great Mysteries
Oliver Balch The Spectator
Philip Roth's Apartment is on the Market
Terena Bell The Guardian
Book of the Week: 'The Case for Trump'
The Editors RealClearBooks
Monday, March 25
Politicized Kids' Books Are a New Low in Parenting
Will Lloyd The Spectator
The Turbulent Politics of “Berlin Alexanderplatz”
David Blackbourn Foreign Affairs
Inside Our Personal Libraries
National Review
John Gray Separates the Atheist Wheat from the Chaff
Graham McAleer Law & Liberty
Europe's Twin Specters of Fear
James Chappel The Nation
The Rise of the Research University
Pavlos Papadopoulos University Bookman
The Role Birds Played in the Ancient World
Mathew Lyons History Today
The Return of Dystopian Fiction
Erica Wagner New Statesman
Fate of the Book Review in the Age of the Algorithm
Christian Lorentzen Harpers


©2019 RealClearBooks | Go to full site