RealClearBooks Week of August 8, 2022 Archives

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Monday, August 8
Chris Pratt's Anti-Woke Thriller Is Ratings Winner
Joseph Michalitsianos Daily Mail
David McCullough, Explorer of America’s Past, Dies at 89
Daniel Lewis NYTimes
How ‘Better Call Saul’ Refined the Art of Television
John Jurgensen WSJ
Larkin in America
Jonathan Clarke City Journal
Why Did They Hate 'The Magnificent Ambersons'?
Peter Tonguette American Conservative
Frustrating Life of a Man of Ideas
Paul Sagar The Critic Magazine
The Use and Abuse of History
Kyle Edward Williams The Hedgehog Review
It Cures What Ales You
Jacob Grier Washington Examiner
British Museum Proposes ‘Parthenon Partnership’
Gareth Harris The Art Newspaper
How Did Elevators Lose Their Music?
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Robert Lowell's Memoirs
Declan Ryan The Guardian
Bookmarks Past and Present
Sarah Dale The Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum
The Wedding Present
Cynthia Ozick The Atlantic


Tuesday, August 9
Whittaker Chambers' 'Witness' at Seventy
Daniel J. Mahoney The American Mind
Deborah Birx’s Guide to Destroying America
Michael P. Senger Tablet
Setting the Finale Stage for ‘Better Call Saul’
Michael Schneider Variety
Why Are So Many Adults Acting Like Kids?
Matt Alt Aeon Magazine
‘Giant,’ a Great American Epic Film
Peter Tonguette WSJ
Why Do Films Get Canceled?
Alexander Larman The Spectator World
Bach in Town
Niall Gooch The Critic Magazine
The Astonishing Autobiography of Mary Rodgers
Daniel Okrent New York Times
Stalin’s Architect: The Remarkable Life of Boris Iofan
Deyan Sudjic MIT Press Reader
Jordan Peterson's Christian Problem
Michael Warren Davis The American Conservative
Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)
The Editors The Public Domain Review
Bert Fields, Litigator to the Stars, Dies at 93
Jonathan Handel The Hollywood Reporter


Wednesday, August 10
How ‘Field of Dreams’ Turned Iowa into Baseball’s Mecca
John Jurgensen WSJ
An Unfunny Lecture on Modern Comedy
Christian Toto Hollywood in Toto
In 'Cannibal', Spielberg Returns to Realism
Armond White National Review
Father Stu Shows Us Strength in Weakness
Sarah Negri Acton Institute PowerBlog
A Post-Originalism Common Good
Jesse Merriam Law & Liberty
The Ugliness of Everything
William S. Lind The American Conservative
Socialism and the Great Reset
Michael Anton The American Mind
Lessons from Jane Austen
Tiffany Schubert First Things
My Counterfeit Israeli Family
Morton Landowne Tabletmag
Crazy Eddie’s Life Was Insane!
Alexandra Jacobs NY Times
Aubrey Plaza Is Stellar in ‘Emily the Criminal’
Michael O'Sullivan WaPo
The Making of 'The Godfather'
James Delingpole The Spectator World


Thursday, August 11
National Lampoon Is Back
Christian Toto Hollywood in Toto
Sick and Tired of Whiny Woke Reviews
Johnny Oleksinski New York Post
Just Vengeance in 'The Terminal List'
Caleb Symons First Things
What 'Demolition Man' Got Right about the 21st Century—so Far
Jon Miltimore FEE
Is ‘Diversity’ the New Religion of American Universities?
Anthony Bradley Acton
A Legacy of Equal Justice
Jesse Russell Law & Liberty
Selling Sexual Freedom
Ashley Colby The American Mind
Review of 'The Mind and the Moon' by Daniel Bergner
Matthew Levey City Journal
Robin Williams: His Best Performances and Movies
Ben Ross Hollywood Insider
Josephine Baker Hiding in the Spotlight
Lauren Michele Jackson The New Yorker
What Do People Leave Behind in Library Books?
Brigit Katz Smithsonian Magazine
Humans Know a Lot and Most of It Is Useless
Jennifer Szalai NYT
The Breakout Star of ‘Bullet Train’ Is…a Water Bottle?
Esther Zuckerman WSJ
Early Days of Creedence Clearwater Revival
Tobias Carroll InsideHook


Friday, August 12
Nobody Wanted Pacino in ‘The Godfather’
Nika Shakhnazarova NY Post
The Last American Aristocrat
Phil Klay UnHerd
Salman Rushdie Stabbed by Iran Sympathizer
Steven Vago & Patrick Reilly NYPost
We Need to Stop Rewriting Songs and Rewriting History
Joanna Williams Spiked
Kevin Costner’s Career Politics
Armond White National Review
The Sandman Is a Lesson in Natural Law
Josh Herring Acton Institute PowerBlog
In Defense of the Adventure Novel
Michael Warren Davis The American Conservative
Fiction and Friendship
John Wilson First Things
‘History Is Human’: Remembering David McCullough
Candice Millard The Atlantic
Historian David McCullough on Art
WSJ Arts in Review Staff Wall Street Journal
Aristocrats in a Democratic Age
Sarah Gustafson Law & Liberty
The Night of the Murdered Poets
Lawrence W. Reed FEE
Lessons for Evangelization from Britney Spears
Jim McDermott America Magazine
The Amazing Grace of Bruce Lee’s Fight Scenes
Christopher Bray The Spectator World
The Brontës: 'Emily' Review
Tara Brady The Irish Times
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