RealClearBooks Week of August 29, 2022 Archives

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Monday, August 29
The Old South Shall Rise Again
Victor Davis Hanson The New Criterion
Drinking with the Ancients
David Butterfield Antigone
The Brutal Pessimism of Michel Houellebecq
Ryan Napier Jacobin
A Town’s Centuries-Old Passion Play Evolves
Michael Paulson New York Times
Weird Science
Errol Morris Air Mail
It's Time for Salman Rushdie's Nobel Prize
David Remnick The New Yorker
Let There Be Light
Martin Kemp The Critic Magazine
The Waste Land at 100
Jason M. Baxter First Things
Everyone Deserves a Granite Countertop
Seth Barron Claremont Review of Books
How Disruptions Happen
David Potter Aeon
Casualties of the Reading Wars
Dale Chu National Review
How Rickey Henderson Played It Safe
Terry Eastland Washington Free Beacon
Quentin Tarantino Slams François Truffaut
Christian Zilko IndieWire
How Woke Put Paid to Publishing
Joanna Williams City Journal
What Is a Museum?
Tom Seymour The Art Museum
Myths Carved Into Motion
Dominic Green Wall Street Journal
George Peppard, Half a Double Man
Nicky Smith Splice Today
Blondie Remembers the Bad Old Days
Alan Light Esquire
Remembering M. Stanton Evans
James A. Davenport University Bookman


Tuesday, August 30
When the World's Religions Were Remade
Philip Jenkins Modern Age
On Herman Melville's 'The Lightening-Rod Man'
David Bahr Forbes
From Glory to Ruin to Mediocrity
David Pryce-Jones Wall Street Journal
A Yiddish Colossus
Ben Felsenburg The Critic Magazine
Chroma Chameleon
Mario Naves Spectator World
The Jewish-American Mob
Douglas Century Tablet Magazine
The Making of a Literary Masterpiece
Keith Gessen The New Yorker
James Joyce's Divine Comedy
Terry Eagleton UnHerd
On Writing the Script for Resnais’s 'Hiroshima Mon Amour'
Marguerite Duras LitHub
Cooking with Nora Ephron
Valerie Stivers The Paris Review
The Scandalous Roots of the Amusement Park
Cath Pound BBC Culture
Sayaka Murata Inhabits a Planet of Her Own
Thu-Huong Ha Wired
The Unlovable, Irresistible John Donne
James Parker The Atlantic
Privateers for American Freedom
Michael Taube The New Criterion
Dirk Bogarde's World of Interiors
Gayle Lazda London Review of Books
High School Teachers Need to Teach Liberal Arts
John Agresto RealClearEducation
Classical Ed's Counterinsurgency
Scott Yenor Law & Liberty
The Pascal of the Pandemic
David Black City Journal


Wednesday, August 31
Separating Race and State
Scott Gerber Law & Liberty
When Culture Celebrated Men
Mark Judge American Greatness
The Reluctant Wokester
Valerie Stivers Compact
Why Can't Joe Rogan Make Up His Mind?
Christian Toto Hollywood in Toto
The Un-Cancellation of Sam Hyde
Oliver Bateman UnHerd
How This Comedian Is Disrupting Cancel Culture and Comedy
Brittany Hunter FEE
Badly Chosen Lovers
Madelaine Lucas Astra Magazine
Pynchon at the Beach
Jim Ruland Alta Online
The Political Legacy of John Berger's Art Criticism
Francesca Peacock Verso
Mother Knows Best
Bekah Waalkes The Baffler
How Gwendoline Riley Makes Words Fail
Rachel Connolly Vulture
Our Quest for Control Has Gotten Out of Control
Kara Bettis Christianity Today
Review: ‘What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us’
Andrew Stark WSJ
Hulu's 'Mike' Dramatizes the Life of Mike Tyson
Patrick Sauer Smithsonian
Despite Backlash, 'Persuasion' Largely Persuades
Carol Iannone Acton
Robert Plant's Mixed Feelings About His 'Hobbit' Period
Tobias Carroll InsideHook
C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien: Telling Stories to Save Lives
Rachel Lu America Magazine
‘The Rings of Power’ Is a Triumph
Lauren Sarner New York Post


Thursday, September 1
Reading in Unprecedented Times
Jason Peters Law & Liberty
The Abolition of Man Postponed
Alec Ryrie The Acton Institute
A Hedge Against Inflation. Your Baseball Card Collection.
Allison Prang WSJ
Don’t Teach Your Kids to Fear the World
Arthur C. Brooks The Atlantic
Jobs Not Jail: Bring Back Vocational Education
Guy Shepherd New York Post
On Maggie Bradbury
Emily Temple Lit Hub
The Supergenius at the End of the World
David Polanksy The New Atlantis
Wartime Hallelujah
Zachary Hardman The Critic
Escoffery's Surprising Stories of Desperation
Katy Waldman The New Yorker
The Allure of the Enigmatic
David Lehman The American Scholar
Good Country People
Emina Melonic American Greatness
Peter Weiss and the Riddle of Representation
Natasha Boyd The Nation
Against the Big Screen Beauty Contest: 'Girl Online' Review
Philippa Snow TNR
Taylor Lorenz Is a Crybully
Ashley Rindsberg The Spectator World
‘Purple Hearts’ Heals While Biden Stirs Division
Christian Toto Hollywood in Toto
Forge the Ring, Pass the Soup
Pete Peterson Christianity Today
$3 Movie Tickets Across America This Saturday
Alissa Wilkinson Vox
The Best Movies, TV, Books and Music for September
Kirk Miller InsideHook


Friday, September 2
Porn Again
Madeleine Kearns The Spectator World
Following Alexis de Tocqueville
Jay Tolson The Hedgehog Review
Don’t You Have to Do Something Heroic to Be a Hero?
Lee Siegel City Journal
Portrait of the Artist as a Grown Man
Anthony Domestico The Baffler
T.S. Eliot’s Alibis
Helen Thaventhiran London Review of Books
Capturing Ahmad Jamal in His Prime
Giovanni Russonello New York Times
Proust in Buenos Aires
Marco Roth Tablet Magazine
Among the Deathworks
Imogen Sinclair The Critic Magazine
The Irish Fairy and Folk Tales of W.B. Yeats
David Bahr Forbes
Two Hamlets of the 21st Century
Noah Millman Modern Age
Lars von Trier Is Back to His Old Tricks
Peter Debruge Variety
‘Summer of Rohmer’ Review: Riding the French New Wave
Kyle Smith WSJ
'Jiro' and the Impossible Dream of Authenticity
Bettina Makalintal Eater
Facing the Music
Wallace S. Moyle The New Criterion
Liberal Literature
Mark Bauerlein First Things
The Sears AC Commercial That Will Never Die
Nate Rogers The Ringer
JK Rowling Sees Through Her Enemies
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
On Charles Baxter's 'Wonderlands'
Joseph Peschel The Brooklyn Rail
The Wrath of a Woman Without Any Options
Sophie Gilbert The Atlantic
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