RealClearBooks Week of January 15, 2024 Archives

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Monday, January 15
Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter
Krithika Varagur The New Yorker
Nick Saban Made Alabama Too Big to Fail
Alex Kirshner The Ringer
The Three Factions of American Culture
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Ambitious Nihilism
Inez Stepman First Things
I’m an Unwelcome Author
Rob Henderson Rob Henderson's Newsletter
‘Nineteen Eighty-four’ With a Female Face
Cathy Young The Bulwark
We Are Trying to Save the Soul of America
Francesca Block The Free Press
What Should a Guys’ Culture Look Like?
Chris Jesu Lee Salieri Redemption
On Bob Dylan's 'Desire'
Elizabeth Nelson Pitchfork
You Need To Be Cringemaxxing
Mary Harrington Reactionary Feminist
The Self-Aware Starlet
Kara Kennedy Washington Examiner
Nick Saban Rejects the Gerontocracy
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
A Knife Forged in Fire
Laurence Gonzales Chicago Magazine
What Happened to My Search Engine?
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
The Good in the Ugly
Mark Spencer Law & Liberty
The Sopranos Is a Freudian Comedy
Matt Feeney UnHerd
The Auteurs of Discomfort
Sarah Chihaya The Nation


Tuesday, January 16
The Horrifying and Humanistic Ending of “The Curse”
Naomi Fry The New Yorker
ESPN’s Year From Hell
Bryan Curtis The Ringer
Standing Beside History, Yelling ‘Go!’
Santi Ruiz The Dispatch
The Emmys Aren’t Going Anywhere
Josef Adalian Vulture
What SoundCloud Created Can Never Die
Jason Parham Wired
'Casablanca' Is Worth the Hype
Madeleine Kearns National Review
Here’s Your 'Mean Girls' Report Card
Nadira Goffe Slate
The Body and Its Denizen
Emmeline Clein Los Angeles Review of Books
Real Men Sob in Spandex
Ann Lee The Guardian
NFC is Way Better for Quarterbacks
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
A Tour of America’s Beloved Regional Cocktails
Staff Punch
How Julianne Moore Found the Truth in 'May December'
David Canfield Vanity Fair
Can Miss America Restore America’s Faith in Merit?
Jane Guenther Parent Chronicles
Have Universities Ever Been a Source of Wisdom?
Robert Curry American Thinker


Wednesday, January 17
Coming of Age at the Dawn of the Social Internet
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
The NBA Still Hasn’t Found an Answer for Nikola Jokic
Michael Pina The Ringer
Getting the Pump
Jordan Castro Harper's
On Fictional Characters in Search of Utopias
Tara Isabella Burton LitHub
Venita Blackburn’s First Novel Runs on Denial
Mariella Rudi Vulture
In Defense of Art Basel
Ginevra Davis The New Criterion
Notes on the Work of Cormac McCarthy
Luis Jorge Boone Southwest Review
The Live Louise Glück
Greg Gerke Cleveland Review of Books
France’s Philosopher King
Laurent Lemasson The Critic
The Next Step for Disaffected Donors
Hans Zeiger Law & Liberty
We Are All Mean Girls Now
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
The End of the Multiverse
Jonathan Russell Clark Esquire
Lulling the Dreamers to Sleep
Bradley C.S. Watson Thomas D. Klingenstein
How 50 Cent Became the Most Versatile Man in Entertainment
Marin Cogan Vox
At the Intersection of Love and Technology
Beth Lisogorsky Chronicles
Leonard Bernstein Deserved Better Than ‘Maestro’
Daniel Lelchuk Quillette


Thursday, January 18
John Gray and Peter Thiel: Life in a Postmodern World
John Gray New Statesman
Aliens Are Among Us
Mary Harrington UnHerd
Stability Above All
Naomi Schaefer Riley Commentary
The DEI Rollback
John Sailer The Free Press
The Poet’s Place
Adam Fleming Petty Commonweal
You Don't Need To Document Everything
Freya India GIRLS
Conservatism and Civilizational Collapse
Graham McAleer Law & Liberty
The Haunting Presence of Stanley Kubrick
Alexander Larman Engelsberg Ideas
A Whale of a Time
Luke Winkie Slate
How And Why The Ivy League Will Die
Isaac Simpson The Federalist
Beware of Mean Girls on Screen or in Politics
Armond White National Review
Chesterton and the Cowardly Cocktail?
Michael Foley Chronicles
DEI Squelches Student Reporting at Yale, Penn
Sahar Tartak Tablet
‘Mental Maps of the Founders’ Review
Adam Rowe Wall Street Journal
The Most Anticipated Crime Fiction of 2024
Molly Odintz Crimereads
Revisit: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Andy Fowler Andy’s Newsletter


Friday, January 19
Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing?
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
The Truth About Banned Books
James Fishback The Free Press
Self and Simulation
Trevor Quirk The Baffler
The Weird, Enduring Appeal of Tool
Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker
Why Women Love Lesbian Romance
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
Why is March 2024 the Best Month in Years For Books?
Maris Kreizman LitHub
The Ravens Have Always Had a Star in Lamar Jackson
Steven Ruiz The Ringer
The Devaluation of Skills in Our Current Culture
Chris Jesu Lee Salieri Redemption
Nobody Forced You to Watch Cage Fighting
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Letters to a Biographer
Joyce Carol Oates The Paris Review
Toward a Unifying Theory of Lake Monsters
Colin Dickey Atlas Obscura
On Fernanda Melchor’s “This Is Not Miami”
Henry Hietala Cleveland Review of Books
Cheryl Hines on Life After Larry
Seth Abramovitch Hollywood Reporter
Words Edgewise: The Anniversary Edition
Neal B. Freeman National Review
Hey Siri, Call Webster
Kelly McMasters The American Scholar
Is Consolidation the Answer to Hollywood’s Profit Problem?
Jennifer Maas Variety
Planned Man's Links of the Day
The Case for Christian Civilizationism
Andrew Beck American Mind
Podcast: Rivals and Trials by Compact
Available this week: "The Wisdom of Our Ancestors" by Graham James McAleer & Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul
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