RealClearBooks Week of September 4, 2023 Archives

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Monday, September 4
The Death of the Romantic Liberal
Mathis Bitton City Journal
Ensuring AI Obeys Americans
James Poulos Return
We Should Still Love Kojak
Casey Chalk Law & Liberty
College Football and the Open Society
Howe Whitman III The American Conservative
Olga Ravn’s 'My Work'
Amber Sparks The Brooklyn Rail
Listening to Taylor Swift in Prison
Joe Garcia The New Yorker
How UGA Became the Best Program in College Football
Jordan Ritter Conn Ringer
The Boys Who Surf Subways
McCaffrey Blauner The Free Press
Tolkien, 50 Years On
Sebastian Milbank The Critic
Don’t Underestimate Jimmy Buffett’s Influence on Style
Guy Trebay New York Times
Why We Need Oliver Anthony
Tom McTague UnHerd
Tolkien and the Contemporary Reader
Josh Allan Quillette
Ramblin’ Men
Michael Warren Washington Free Beacon


Tuesday, September 5
Burning Man Will Rise Again
Geoff Dyer UnHerd
Present At the Destruction
N.S. Lyons City Journal
Jimmy Buffett Found Paradise on Earth
Rob Harvilla The Ringer
Can We Talk to Whales?
Elizabeth Kolbert The New Yorker
Hanging in the Balance Sheet
Kyle Paoletta The Baffler
We Will All Become Boring
Louise Perry Maiden Mother Matriarch
Apparently Personal: On Sharon Olds
Gunnhild Øyehaug The Paris Review
On Brandon Taylor’s “The Late
Yvonne Kim Cleveland Review of Books
Paul Johnson: A Modern Victorian
Sebastian Milbank Acton Institute
Confessions of a Netflix DVD Dead-Ender
Joshua Keating The Atlantic
Our Lost Classical Learning
Brian Kaller Quillette
Classical Liberalism vs. "Climate Liberalism"
Rob Bradley Law & Liberty


Wednesday, September 6
Taylor Swift’s Popularity Is A Sign Of Societal Decline
Mark Hemingway Federalist
Rage Against the Wooden Man
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
Lucinda Williams and the Idea of Louisiana
Wyatt Williams Bitter Southerner
How Zadie Smith Lost Her Teeth
Andrea Long Chu Vulture
Ponderous Joe Goes Deep
Joe Posnanski Esquire
The Cavinder Twins Blew Up the Student-Athlete Playbook
Emma Carmichael GQ
I Left Out the Full Truth
Patrick Brown The Free Press
How Zadie Smith Succumbed to History
Nikhil Krishnan UnHerd
Escaping the Online Discourse to Burning Man
Lee Fang Substack
Not Everybody’s Protest Novel
Hubert Adjei-Kontoh Tablet
Biden Books Are Still Bombing
Daniel Lippman Politico
Proust, ChatGPT and the Case of the Forgotten Quote
Elif Batuman The Guardian
The Beauty of Physical Encounters with Rare Books
Kathleen B. Jones LitHub
How ‘American Football’ Won Me Over
Charles C.W. Cooke National Review


Thursday, September 7
The Toxic Gentleness of the American Theater
Clayton Fox Tablet
Musk’s Digital Leviathan
Nicolas Hausdorf Compact
Raymond Chandler: An American Classic
Michael Mandelbaum American Purpose
Taking the Measure of Man
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty Exclusive
Under Western Eyes
Leo Robson New Left Review
Ending the Hunger Games
Iona Italia Quillette
My Dinner With Jimmy Buffett
Jeremy Carl Revolver
Famous Amis
Kyle Smith New Criterion
Burning Man Is a Capitalist Lie
Mary Harrington UnHerd
On Showing Up
Andrew Boryga Dwell
The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes
Lane Brown Vulture
Refusing the “Great Refusal”
Daniel J. Mahoney American Mind
The End of Airbnb in New York
Amanda Hoover Wired
The 2024 Candidates Pick the Songs That Stir Their Souls
Politico Staff Politico
The Accidental Activist
Jeff VanderMeer Esquire
A Sunset Toast to Jimmy Buffett
Nick Paumgarten The New Yorker


Friday, September 8
A Tool Kit for Tradition in Philadelphia
Albert Eisenberg RealClearBooks
The South’s Jewish Proust
Blake Smith Tablet
Book Publishing's Broken Blurb System
Sophie Vershbow Esquire
On Whit Stillman: The End Is the Beginning Is the End
Seth Katz Slant Magazine
The Other Napoleon
Aidan Harte Law & Liberty
The Golden Age of Gaming and Wrestling
Oliver Bateman Splice Today
Prime Numbers
Bradley Devlin The American Conservative
I Got Engaged in the Mud at Burning Man
Nick Gillespie The Free Press
On Louise Glück’s 'Marigold and Rose'
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
How Lionel Messi and Soccer Bring Together a Father and Son
Chris Jones ESPN
TIFF in a Time of Strike
Adam Nayman The Ringer
How “This Fool” Became the Summer’s Best Comedy
Inkoo Kang The New Yorker
Modern Illiteracy and Its Cure
Robert Whaples Modern Age
James Ellroy Reveals the Real Reason He Writes
James Ellroy LitHub
The Pittsburgh Pirates Deserve Better
Zach Kennedy RealClearPennsylvania
Box Office Ben Has Arrived
Jake Nevins New York Magazine
Baseball at the Abyss
Kevin Duffy Acton Institute
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Compact Conversations by Compact
Available this week: "The Border Simulator" by Gabriel Dozal
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