RealClearBooks Week of August 15, 2022 Archives

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Monday, August 15
The Best Response to Salman Rushdie's Stabbing
Douglas Murray Spectator
Humans Know a Lot and Most of It Is Useless
Jennifer Szalai New York Times
Thomas Carlyle in the Spirit-World
The Editors The Public Domain Review
The Deeper Meaning of Bruce Lee
Micah Mattix Washington Examiner
Tehran Museum Unveils Western Masterpieces
Associated Press The Guardian
Eisgruber's Emails
Sergiu Klainerman Tablet
Magellan Maligned
Gerard Helferich Wall Street Journal
The Rushdie Attack
Theodore Dalrymple City Journal
Finding the Sublime in a Bus Station
Lauren Elyse Garcia The New Yorker
12 Movies and Shows That Will Never Be Released
James Hibberd Hwood Reporter
Graphic Design in 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'
Joey Levenson Its Nice That
Poetry as Prayer
Peter J. Leithart First Things
Whataboutism
B.D. McClay The Hedgehog Review


Tuesday, August 16
Why Call It Liberal Education?
John Agresto RealClearBooks
A Skeptic Confronts False Prophets
Joshua Mitchell Law & Liberty
Ernst Lubitsch Made the Hollywood Comedy Sublime
Alex Ross The New Yorker
If We Don’t Defend Free Speech, We Live in Tyranny
Margaret Atwood The Guardian
Wild About Harry
Conrad Black Claremont Review of Books
James Burnham: The Partisan Review Years
Francis P. Sempa University Bookman
Next Year in Digital Jerusalem
Michael Gibson City Journal
Love, Death and Music: The Poetry of W.H. Auden
Brad Leithauser WSJ
'Heat 2' Brings Michael Mann's Vision to the Page
Jason Diamond GQ
The Disgust of Ottessa Moshfegh
Adam Lehrer Compact
Bullet Train is a Neon-washed Delight
John Ehrett Spectator World
We Ignored Salman Rushdie's Warning
Bari Weiss Common Sense
The Filmmaker Trapped Between Hollywood and Moscow
Irina Aleksander NYT
Welcome to Philip K. Dick's Dystopia
David Samuels UnHerd
A Sharp and Shrewd Look at Lawrence
Paul Dean The Critic
Nathan Fielder's Cinéma Vérité
J. Oliver Conroy Washington Examiner


Wednesday, August 17
Gene LeBell Did It All
Oliver Bateman The Ringer
The Fragile Bodies of Famous Men
Justin E.H. Smith The Point Magazine
Please, No More Middle-class Memoirs
Darragh McManus Spiked
The Nora Ephron We Forget
Rachel Syme The New Yorker
The World Loves Top Gun: Maverick
Jack Butler National Review
FOX Nation Goes Hollywood
Christian Toto Hollywood in Toto
Burke's Commitment to Social Freedom
Paul Krause Law & Liberty
The Infidels Will Not Be Silenced
Ayaan Hirsi Ali UnHerd
The Man Onstage With Salman Rushdie
George Packer The Atlantic
The Beginning of History
Julius Krein American Affairs Journal
The Two Lives of Steve McQueen
Christopher Sandford Acton Institute PowerBlog
‘Better Call Saul’: Power of Confessing Your Sins
Jim McDermott America Magazine
'The Menu': What If Fine Dining Was Really a Horror Movie
Nico Avalle Bon Appétit
William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
John Pistelli Grand Hotel Abyss


Thursday, August 18
Is Publishing About Art or Commerce?
Katy Waldman The New Yorker
Joan Didion and Eve Babitz Shared an Unlikely Friendship
Lili Anolik Vanity Fair
An Overdue Pilgrimage to Stonington, Connecticut
Henri Cole The Paris Review
Brain Games: 'Alex's War' reviewed
Nicky Smith Splice Today
The Progressive Puritans Will Faill
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
‘Criminal (In)Justice’ Review: In Defense of Policing
Elliot Kaufman WSJ
Salman Rushdie and the Social Media Fatwa
Carl R. Trueman First Things
Too Punk for Rock and Roll
Mark Judge American Greatness
Cicero's Fragile Trinity
Scott B. Nelson Law & Liberty
Russ Roberts with Tim Ferriss on Wild Problems
Alice Temnick Econlib
Soul of Freedom
Christopher Flannery The American Mind
When Meddlers Run Amok
Dan Sanchez Foundation for Economic Education
Bryce Dallas Howard's Throwback Femininity
Rich Cromwell Spectator World
Sounds of Music
Jay Nordlinger National Review
Why Is It So Hard to Represent Gen Z on Film?
Charles Bramesco InsideHook


Friday, August 19
The Philosopher Who Annoys All the Right People
Steven Poole Spectator
Conservative and Single? Sorry, Not Interested
Tevi Troy Washington Examiner
Gen Z Has Found Its Guitar Hero
Spencer Kornhaber The Atlantic
The Right's Populist Prophet
Richard M. Reinsch II Modern Age
'The Godfather' at 50
Rick Marin Commentary
Willie Nelson’s Long Encore
Jody Rosen New York Times
Burke's Commitment to Social Freedom
Paul Krause Law & Liberty
Frederick Buechner, Novelist andTheologian, Dies at 96
Emily Langer WaPo
Werner Herzog, Debut Novelist
Varad Mehta Washington Examiner
The Creedence Clearwater Revival Revival
David Cantwell The New Yorker
On Salman Rushdie
Mary Gaitskill Out of It
Guy Fawkes's Lantern
Peter Hitchens The Lamp Magazine
Why 'Mansfield Park' Matters
Sarah Schutte National Review
Are Gen-Zs Summoning Evil Spirits Online?
Esmé Partridge The Critic Magazine
Howard Carter Stole Tutankhamun’s Treasure
Dalya Alberge The Guardian
Black Patriotism over White Paternalism
Mark Bauerlein First Things
The Targaryens Are Back and Blazing
John Anderson WSJ
The Maravilla of Art
Scott Raines IM—1776
Shelf Life
Rosamund Urwin Air Mail
Monday, August 22
The Quiet End of the Golden Age of Television
Ben Domenech Spectator World
What's at Stake for HBO and Amazon
Sarah Whitten CNBC
The Case for an American Revolution in Morals
Barton Swaim WSJ
Eight Books That Will Lead You Down a Rabbit Hole
Robert Rubsam The Atlantic
Why Does Britain Hate Winslow Homer?
Alastaire Sooke The Telegraph
JT LeRoy Never Existed, But He Lived
Katherine Dee Return
The Compliant College Classroom
Lee Trepanier Law & Liberty
Wolfgang Petersen, Director of ‘Das Boot,’ Dies
Scott Roxborough Hollywood Reporter
How to Watch 10 of Wolfgang Petersen's Best Movies
Justin Chang LAT
The Reactionary Blockbuster of the Summer
Michael Schindler American Spectator
Netflix Pivots to Tom Dillon
Rob Lockwood Washington Free Beacon
A Vision of Black Success
Ian Rowe Acton Institute
Not Quite Her Majesty’s Service
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon
Why the PRC Embraced Paul Robeson
Gao Yunxiang Aeon Magazine
Wow, Politicians Are Really Bad at Podcasting
Derek Robertson Politico Magazine
Why I'm Publishing My Next Book on Substack
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Did Luxury Mag Photo Hide Stole Cambodian Relics?
Peter Whoriskey WaPo
Leon Vitali, Stanley Kubrick's Right-Hand Man, Dies at 74
Lindsey Bahr AP
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