RealClearBooks Week of January 8, 2024 Archives

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Monday, January 8
'The Iron Claw' Doesn’t Quite Take Hold
Oliver Bateman RealClearBooks
A Sleater-Kinney Album Mutated by Grief
Hanif Abdurraqib The New Yorker
Sexual Politics on the American Right
Nina Power Fairer Disputations
The Secret of the Sphere
Nicholas Clairmont Washington Examiner
Facts Do Care About Your Feelings
Jennifer Sey Sey Everything
Scenes From a Marriage
Emina Melonic Chronicles
‘The Sopranos' Is the Ultimate TV Series About America
Daniel McCarthy NYPost
The Revolt of the Kids
Inez Feltscher Stepman The American Mind
Literature in a Time of Conglomeration
Adam Fleming Petty The Bulwark
Are We Focused on the Wrong Rome?
Jonathan Leaf Law & Liberty
Out Here, War Is a Precious Memory
John J. Waters American Spectator
Claudine Gay and the Mafia of Mediocrity
Ayaan Hirsi Ali UnHerd
The Electric Kool-Aid Conservative
Osita Nwanevu The New Republic
Shore To Please
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon
The Free Press Goes to the Movies
Staff The Free Press
What Can We Do About American Culture?
Richard J. Shinder The Messenger
Thinking and Drinking with Plato
Titus Techera Acton Institute
‘Night Swim’ Dives Into the Deep End
Miles Surrey The Ringer
Roald Dahl’s Regrettable Uncle Oswald
Alexander Larman Engelsberg Ideas
An Interview with Tara Isabella Burton
Alexandra Davis Public Discourse


Tuesday, January 9
The Wisdom of Our Ancestors
Daniel J. Mahoney RealClearBooks
Moneyball
Jonathan Clarke City Journal
The Secret Fuel That Makes “Ferrari” Such a Triumph
Richard Brody The New Yorker
Game Changer
Malcolm Brooks View From the Bluff
A Messenger from the Past
Ross Barkan Political Currents
The Real Threat to Classical Music
R. Taggart Murphy Compact
‘The Beekeeper’ Review
Sonny Bunch The Bulwark
College Football's Death March
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
A Metaphysical Memoir of Heroin
Daniel Kolitz The Nation
What’s Next for College Admissions?
Peter Arcidiacono Persuasion
The Many Layers of 'May December'
Aja Romano Vox
The Paris Review’s Favorite Books of 2023
Staff The Paris Review
The Biggest Takeaways From the 2024 Golden Globes
Miles Surrey The Ringer
The Golden Globes Were a Mess
Sam Adams Slate


Wednesday, January 10
The Playwright Has a Few More Changes
Julian Lucas The New Yorker
The Legacy of This Michigan Season Will Live On Forever
Austin Gayle The Ringer
Steroid to Heaven
Adrian Nathan West The Baffler
Overton Collapse
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
What Is a Bradley Cooper Film?
Fran Hoepfner Vulture
O, Wonder! Take a Moment To Smell the Roses
J. Peder Zane RealClearPolitics
Adding Aristotle to Foreign Policy
Graham McAleer Law & Liberty
The Labyrinth of Guy Davenport’s Mind
John Jeremiah Sullivan UnHerd
A Dense Thicket of Contending Visions
Matt Hanson Quillette
What Parents Can Do About TikTok
Mark Bauerlein First Things
The Root Cause of Academic Groupthink
Bruce Abramson RealClearEducation
The Paradox of Apology
Agnes Callard The Point
A Sanctuary Made of Books
Stephen McCauley LitHub
The Best New Fiction of the Year
John Self The Critic
DEI Statements Are Political Litmus Tests
Greg Lukianoff & Rikki Schlott Reason


Thursday, January 11
Has School Become Optional?
Alec MacGillis The New Yorker
The Curse of 'The Iron Claw'
Peter Tonguette Acton Institute
The Agony and Ecstasy of Rafael Nadal
Caira Conner Intelligencer
Flaubert Versus the World
Scott Bradfield New Republic
Godzilla Plus Redemption
Darryl Cooper IM—1776
The Lessons I Learned from Journalism
Andrew Boryga Dwell
The Economy of University Prestige
James M. Patterson Law & Liberty
Together, Tiger Woods and Nike Did the Impossible
Will Schube GQ
Are Greens Powders Actually Good For You?
Amy McCarthy Eater
The Remarkable New Godzilla Movie
Dana Stevens Slate
Book Review: The Soul of Civility
Julian Adorney FAIR
Why I Quit My Dream Job at MIT
Mauricio Karchmer The Free Press
On Performative Cleanliness
Rebecca Jennings Vox
Todd Haynes’s Sex-Offender Story Hour
Armond White National Review


Friday, January 12
The Disenchanted Normie
Stephen G. Adubato RealClearBooks & Culture
Why Taylor Swift Can’t Deny Being Gay
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
Can Music Save Ryan Adams’ Life?
Mark Hemingway The Federalist
The Ideal Literary Editor
Alex Perez Musings From the 305
Very Ordinary Men
Sam Kriss The Point
Jim Harbaugh and the Return of Bully Ball
Oliver Bateman Washington Examiner
How Nature Became the Environment
Emmet Penney American Mind
Nick Saban Was College Football's Center of Gravity
Alex Kirshner GQ
The End of Feminism
Rachel Lu Public Discourse
The River Finally Came for Bill Belichick
Justin Sayles The Ringer
Emotional Dependence on Celebrities Has Gone Too Far
Freddie deBoer Substack
When Truth Is Lost in Translation
Roy Mathews Law & Liberty Exclusive
The Friends and Family That Shaped Mike McDaniel
Ryan Hockensmith ESPN
Against Political Clichés
Emina Melonic Chronicles
Kate Zambreno Collects Herself
Katy Waldman The New Yorker
Revisiting the NBA’s ‘Greatest Ever Season’
Rich Tenorio The Guardian
Review: Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative
Michael N. Peterson AIER
Frances Tiafoe Is Ready For His Major
Josh Rosenberg Esquire
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: A New Golden Age by City Journal
Available this week: "The Wisdom of Our Ancestors" by Graham James McAleer & Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul
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