RealClearBooks Week of August 21, 2023 Archives

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Monday, August 21
The “-ification” of Everything
Lauren Michele Jackson The New Yorker
We Drank the Anti-Woke Beer
Derek Robertson & Calder McHugh Politico Magazine
Yes to Life
Samuel Kronen City Journal
On Adam Phillips
Ben Parker n+1
The State of Things in Coffee Shop America
Max Meyer Max Meyer Blog
The Lost Boys
Spencer Klavan Spencer’s Substack
Camus and the Crisis of the West
Graham McAleer Law & Liberty
‘Strays’ Review
Sonny Bunch The Bulwark
How to Justify the Study of Literature
Christopher J. Scalia Public Discourse
The Case Against ‘Dead Poets Society’
Elizabeth Grace Matthew America Magazine
Who Deserves Amphetamines?
Benjamin Y. Fong The Point
Western Civilization, Chinese Style
David P. Goldman American Mind
The Hives’ Garage Rock Revival Revival
David Meir Grossman Tablet
On Greta Gerwig and Chantal Akerman
Lori Marso Los Angeles Review of Books
Humourless Scolds Have Taken Over Comedy
Simon Evans Spiked
Reflections on the Revolution in America
Pavlos Leonidas Papadopoulos First Things
More Fiction, Less Phone Time
David Skinner Washington Free Beacon
A Map From the Future
Dominic Green WSJ
How "After Hours" Saved Martin Scorsese's Career
Jake Malooley Air Mail
The 100 Best Movies of the ’80s
IndieWire Staff IndieWire


Tuesday, August 22
Richard Ford, Late Master
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Lack of Charisma Can Be Comforting
Anna Dorn Los Angeles Review of Books
Searching for Tom Cruise
Jane Hu The Paris Review
An Interview With April Bernard
Anthony Domestico Commonweal
Bringing Fire from the Gods
David Krugler Law & Liberty Exclusive
Can the NFL’s Chillest Quarterback Thrive in Sin City?
Nora Princiotti The Ringer
Is Beekeeping Wrong?
Sam Knight The New Yorker
The Speech of the Dead
Daniel Walden The New Atlantis
People Are Wrong About ‘Rich Men North of Richmond’
Daniel McCarthy NYPost
Morality in Adam Smith
Gregory M. Collins University Bookman
The Ritual of Rearranging Your Books
Molly Templeton Tor
The Narcissism of Small Diffidences
Naomi Schaefer Riley Commentary
‘The Librarianist’ Could Stand To Be Stranger
Eric Olson The Millions
The Pool
Jeremy Sigler Tablet
Ransacking Naples
Alexander Lee Engelsberg ideas
Roman Polanski at Ninety
Christopher Sandford The Spectator World
These Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI
Alex Reisner The Atlantic
Mina Loy’s Search for ‘An Alternative Order of Things’
Sophie Oliver TLS
The Five Best Books on Great Inventions
Keith Houston WSJ
This Candy Tasted Like Nothing. Why Do People Miss It?
Hisako Ueno NYT


Wednesday, August 23
Hunter Biden’s Raw Art
Adam Lehrer Compact
Saturn Devouring His Son
Sohrab Ahmari The American Conservative
The Decline of the Publishing Business
Noah Kumin The Machine War
California Gothic
Andrew Marzoni The Baffler
The Cult of CrossFit
Oliver Bateman UnHerd
On Gary Indiana’s “Rent Boy”
Bailey Trela Cleveland Review of Books
What Was Digital Media?
Kevin Lozano The Nation
It Totally Peaked in High School
Alexander Nazaryan The New York Times
On Tom Waits’s Extraordinary Mid-Career Trilogy
Tim Adams The Guardian
The Endless Hypocrisy of the Comedy Class
Gareth Roberts The Spectator
Countercultural Americana
Jenna Stocker A Pilgrim’s Progress
What Kind of Artist Was Wayne Shorter?
Richard Brody The New Yorker
What About the Women in Hip Hop?
Shamira Ibrahim The Cut
‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited
Samuel Kronen Quillette
Music Elites and the Oliver Anthony Conundrum
Roger Kaplan American Spectator
‘Subliminals’ Have a Power No Teen Can Explain
Kaitlyn Tiffany The Atlantic
Whatever Happened to Culture?
Joseph Epstein Commentary Magazine
The Adventures of a Book Baron
Dominic Green WSJ
Greta Gerwig’s Paradise Lost
lithub Literary Hub


Thursday, August 24
Can There Be a Theory of the Email Job?
Freddie deBoer Substack
Robbie Robertson and the Greatest Songs
Howard Fishman The New Yorker
Chuck Norris Will Live Forever
Ryan Hockensmith ESPN
The Art of Pulling the Plug
Andrew Boryga Dwell
In Defense of Negging
Magdalene J. Taylor The Cut
The Economics of Black and White
Helen Dale Law & Liberty
How to Go Off-Grid in Alaska
Ashley Colby UnHerd
In This Essay I Will: On Distraction
David Schurman Wallace The Paris Review
It’s the Drugs, Stupid
Charles Fain Lehman City Journal
The Netflix-ification of Football Is Only Beginning
Katie Baker The Ringer
California Dreamin' With Taylor Fritz
Nick Remsen Esquire
Lou Mathews on a Hell of a Journey
Lou Mathews LitHub
The Multibillion-Dollar War Over Sports Trading Cards
Matt Ford The New Republic
When Comedy Made Ideology Cringe
Titus Techera Acton Institute
'Painkiller' Reinforces Misconceptions About Pain Treatment
Jacob Sullum Reason


Friday, August 25
Terry Funk Embodied the Spirit of Pro Wrestling
Oliver Bateman & Ian Douglass Ringer
Austen’s Darkness
Julia Yost Compact
Why Incels Should Read Michel Houellebecq
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
Chat’s Entertainment
Sean Michaels The Baffler
A President of Many Talents
John O. McGinnis Law & Liberty
Jordan Peterson Goes to ‘War’
Abigail Anthony The Free Press
Don’t Buy the Hype on ‘Trad Wives'
Karol Markowicz New York Post
On Lou Mathews’s “L.A. Breakdown”
Nancy Spiller Los Angeles Review of Books
An Interview with Howard Fishman
Olivia Lindsay Aylmer Cleveland Review of Books
Andy Roddick’s Open Era
Sean Manning GQ
The Virtues and the Sins of High-School Football
Ben McGrath The New Yorker
Elite Music Tourism Is the Latest 1 Percent Flex
Beatrice Hazlehurst Vanity Fair
A Viral Cigarette Brand? In 2023?
Magdalene J. Taylor The New York Times
M.F.A. vs. GPT
Xochitl Gonzalez The Atlantic
Living by Proxy in the Age of AI
Bruno Chaouat First Things
The Secret Life of Druids
Miranda Aldhouse-Green Aeon Magazine
Prattle of the Sexes
Joshua T. Katz The New Criterion
Santiago de Compostela’s Biblical Gate
Judith H. Dobrzynski WSJ
Netflix Says You Can Keep Their DVDs
Reggie Ugwu The New York Times
Apple’s Foray into Streaming
Ross Anderson The Spectator World
An Interview with Michael Mann
Stephen Rodrick Variety
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Entitlements and the Entitled by Compact
Available this week: "The Border Simulator" by Gabriel Dozal
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