RealClearBooks Week of February 13, 2023 Archives

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Monday, February 13
Vibes in the Machine
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
Why America Needs Football
Ethan Strauss The Free Press
On Jon K. Lauck’s 'The Good Country'
Brian O'Neill Cleveland Review of Books
Don’t Call It a Comeback
Peter Tonguette Washington Examiner
It's Fine to Be a Snob
Ross Barkan Substack
The Electric Kool-Aid Rap-Rock Test
David Meir Grossman Tablet
Book Captures Rebellious Spirit of Gulf War Veterans
Brett Allen RCDefense
America's Poetic Past
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
Karen Russell Is Resisting Despair
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
Tainted Love: On Matthew Gasda's 'Dover'
Geoffrey Mak Spike Art Magazine
Is A.I. Art Stealing from Artists?
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
The Enduring Legacy of William F. Buckley Jr.
Neal Freeman National Review
The Indispensable Humorist
David Skinner Washington Free Beacon
The Beautiful and Useless Return of 'Avatar'
Erin Schwartz The Nation
Decoders Break Mary, Queen of Scots’ Secret Code
Sarah Knapton The Telegraph
Welcome to the Hotel Florida
Saarah Watling Literary Review
Nightmares of the Cultural Revolution
Xinran The Spectator World
As Wallace Stevens Once Put It: Hi!
Elisa Gabbert New York Times


Tuesday, February 14
BookTok is Good, Actually
Leigh Stein LitHub
What Was Kyrie Irving Thinking?
Simon van Zuylen-Wood New York Magazine
Desert God: Youval Shimoni's Fiction
Armin Rosen Tablet
Antigone: A Hero for Our Time
Jonathan Leaf Acton Institute
In Praise of Pickup Basketball
Max Blaisdell Chicago Reader
A Lost Interview with Clarice Lispector
Benjamin Moser The New Yorker
The Meaning of Locke
Jorge González-Gallarza The Critic
Love Songs: 'Someone Great'
Daniel Poppick The Paris Review
Quentin Tarantino Writes Books Now
Chris Barsanti The Millions
UPenn's Effort to Revoke Tenure From Professor
Aaron Sibarium Free Beacon
The Birth of Kenny Chesney's 'There Goes My Life'
Lee Habeeb Newsweek
The Pop Culture Winners and Losers of Super Bowl LVII
Jodi Walker The Ringer
Deplatforming as Digital Hemlock
Robert F. Graboyes Bastiat's Window
A Great American Composer Reaches His Coda
Lloyd Billingsley American Greatness


Wednesday, February 15
Debating Demographic Decline
The Editors of Law & Liberty Law & Liberty Exclusive
The Witch Trials of J.K. Rowling
Megan Phelps-Roper The Free Press
Barometer of Hate
Heather Mac Donald City Journal
A Review of Richard Reeves' 'Of Boys and Men'
Davis Hunt The Pamphleteer
An Interview with Malcolm Harris
Ryan Baesemann Cleveland Review of Books
On Whitney Houston's Debut Album
Harmony Holiday 4Columns
The Golden Age of the American Songbook Has Closed
Dominic Green DC Examiner
The New York Times Won't Say 'Chiefs'
John Hirschauer The American Conservative
Patrick Bringley's 'All the Beauty in the World'
Freddie deBoer Substack
The Enlightenment as Reading Project
David Wootton The Critic Magazine
An Interview With Nick Cave
Claire Lehmann Quillette
Tár Is a Campus Novel, Grow Up
Brandon Taylor Sweater Weather
The Lessons of 'Women Talking'
Larissa Pham The Nation
A Strange, Paranoid New Crime Drama
Sophie Gilbert The Atlantic
Salman Rushdie’s Latest Blasphemy
Pratinav Anil UnHerd
How "On the Waterfront" Made Marlon Brando an Icon
David Thomson LitHub
The Late Tom La Farge on Fellini's "Satyricon"
Tom La Farge 3:AM Magazine


Thursday, February 16
The Plot To Silence a Fauci Critic
Charlie Tidmarsh RealClearPolitics
The Fairy-Tale Allure of Conspiracies
Mary Harrington UnHerd
Erudite Conservativism
Graham McAleer Law & Liberty
Joe Montana Was Here
Wright Thompson ESPN
Bronze Age Pervert’s Dissertation on Leo Strauss
Blake Smith Tablet
Guns, Blood and Popcorn
Rob Doyle Dublin Review of Books
Love Songs: “I’m Your Man”
Laurie Stone The Paris Review
The Everlasting Appeal of Agatha Christie
Alison Herman The Ringer
Pickleball Looks Really Dumb on TV
Benjamin Hart New York Magazine
''The Day After" at 40
Peter Tonguette The American Conservative
Sandra Oh’s Sense of Purpose
Michael Luo The New Yorker
How Burt Bacharach Rewrote the Rules of Pop
Ellen Peirson-Hagger New Statesman
Revolution Is a Great Work of Art
Nia T. Evans Hammer & Hope
Edgar Allan Poe, Through the Pale Door
William Tipper WSJ
Preston Sturges: Crooked, but Never Common
Jeremy Carr FilmInt.nu


Friday, February 17
The Class Politics of Instagram Face
Grazie Sophia Christie Tablet
America Can't Decide What An Adult Is
River Page Pirate Wires
If John Rawls Ran the Police
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
What Is the Longhouse?
L0m3z First Things
The Booming Market for Backdoor Ozempic
Olivia Reingold The Free Press
Jerry Jarrett Created Pro Wrestling as We Know It
Oliver Bateman The Ringer
Love Songs: “Aguacero”
Carina del Valle Schorske The Paris Review
HBO’s Tiger: Golf’s GOAT and American Avenger
Guy Shepherd Planned Man
Microsoft’s New AI Heralds a Global Threat
Erik Hoel The Intrinsic Perspective
Who Poisoned Pablo Neruda?
Ariel Dorfman The Atlantic
Wayne Coyne and the Benefits of Fry Cooking
Ben Christenson Front Porch Republic
The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe
Diane Scharper Washington Examiner
"The Shining"
Bret Easton Ellis Metrograph
The Kid Stays Out of the Picture
Martin Woessner Los Angeles Review of Books
The Destruction of American Social Cohesion
Jeffrey Folks The Russell Kirk Center
Monday, February 20
Milk Wars
Zachary Emmanuel Pirate Wires
The Problem With Trauma Culture
Catherine Liu Noema
Destructive Authenticity in Full Focus
Gage Klipper Law & Liberty
We’re All Living Under Gravity’s Rainbow
John Semley WIRED
'Titanic' Is Still the Purest Expression of Who James Cameron Is
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
The Dangers of a Sentimental Education
Jasmine Hu Hollingshead Tablet
A Unified Theory of the Trad Health Food Influencer
Sami Reiss GQ
Hag Feminism Is the Future
Phoebe Maltz Bovy UnHerd
Pamela Anderson's Twin Peaks of Success
Rob Lockwood Washington Free Beacon
Liar, Crook and Hollywood Great
Christopher Silvester The Critic Magazine
The Crack-Up
Peter Hughes Quillette
Shaming Americans
Amity Shlaes City Journal
Specific Idiocy
Anthony Daniels The New Criterion
The Man Who Shot Garfield
Gerard Helferich WSJ
Aubrey Plaza in Real Life
Tyler Foggatt The New Yorker
Reason, Revelation, and Identity Politics
Richard Reinsch Heritage Foundation
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Compact Conversations by Compact
Available this week: "How to Save the West" by Spencer Klavan
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