RealClearBooks Week of February 12, 2024 Archives

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Monday, February 12
Taylor Swift, America’s National Hero
David Samuels UnHerd
Who Was “the Old Kanye,” Anyway?
Justin Charity The Ringer
Chelsea Wolfe’s Eclectic Hauntings
Hanif Abdurraqib The New Yorker
Stop Opening Up About Your Mental Health Online
Freya India Quillette
Beauty Kills
Rose Lyddon Cracks in Postmodernity
How Britney Spears Explains Taylor Swift
Constance Grady Vox
Where Did You Go, Eileen?
Brianna Di Monda Los Angeles Review of Books
Old-Style Football with a Modern Face
John Hirschauer City Journal
Letters from War’s Edge
Anthony Domestico Commonweal
How Powerful Is American Culture?
Wessie du Toit The Pathos of Things
Will Outdoor Recreation Save Appalachia?
Anthony Hennen Reason
J.G. Ballard: My Favorite Books
J.G. Ballard MIT Press Reader
Bad News for Democrats in Pennsylvania’s ‘Latino Belt’
Charles F. McElwee Politico
A Fumble for American Democracy
Andrew D. Carico Law & Liberty
How Watching Television Became a Chore
Rob Long Washington Free Beacon
The Forgotten Pioneer of Movie Music
Karen Iris Tucker Tablet


Tuesday, February 13
Jon Ronson’s Guide to the Culture Wars
Andrew Marantz The New Yorker
Raging Bill
Reeves Wiedeman Intelligencer
Tech Strikes Back
Nadia Asparouhova The New Atlantis
Sheila Heti Scrambles Her Life in 'Alphabetical Diaries'
Ariella Garmaise The Walrus
On Good Parties
Tara Isabella Burton Plough
Helen Garner’s Alienating Domesticity
Isabella Trimboli The Nation
Patrick Mahomes Is My GOAT
Jayson Buford GQ
Hegel Vindicated
David P. Goldman First Things
Has the World Outgrown Jon Stewart?
Sam Adams Slate
End of Football Season Reflections
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Manky Stuff
Sam Kriss The Lamp Magazine
What’s Wrong With the Intellectuals?
Alexander Riley Chronicles
The Golden State Warriors Don’t Think This Is the End
Logan Murdock The Ringer
The Artist’s Artist
Tracy Q. Loxley Splice Today
Anatomist of Evil
Stuart Jeffries Literary Review
An Ode to the Bookstore, My First True Love
Edward Zwick Time


Wednesday, February 14
Jennifer Lopez’s $20 Million Gamble
Stephen Rodrick Variety
How the Chiefs Became the Last Great American Dynasty
Tyler Foggatt New Yorker
Flushing Ayn Rand
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
Martin Scorsese Wants You to Put Down Your Phone
Angela Watercutter Wired
Friedman's Rise and Fall
Christopher Caldwell First Things
Cultural Engineers and Their Nightmares
Thomas Millary IM—1776
The Soho House Bubble Is Over
Kara Kennedy New Statesman
Reading Fiction for Status
Chris Jesu Lee Salieri Redemption
Jon Stewart Returns
Daniel Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter
Into the Unknown With the High Priestess of Fabulist Fiction
Adam Morgan Esquire
Holt McCallany Saw His Own Father in 'The Iron Claw'
Roxana Hadadi Vulture
The Internet Has Killed off Romance
Mary Harrington UnHerd
The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies
Staff Eater
The Way of Shai
Danny Chau The Ringer
A Nation of Ingrates?
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
The Future of Land-Grant Universities
Allison Schrager City Journal
Woke ‘Equality’ Is a Myth
William Voegeli TomKlingenstein.com
Why Liberalism Needs Piety
Lee Trepanier Public Discourse


Thursday, February 15
Redemption Songs
Eric Ducker The Ringer
American Counterculture, Glimpsed Through Zines
Hua Hsu The New Yorker
Why You Should Get Married
Brad Wilcox The Free Press
The Lure of Divorce
Emily Gould The Cut
How to Be an Author and a Character
Hannah Kinney-Kobre Cleveland Review of Books
My Full Circle Moment in Kansas City
Andrew Boryga Dwell
Polyamory Is a Luxury Belief
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
An Open Marriage Manifesto?
Dorothy Fortenberry Commonweal
Why Americans Suddenly Stopped Hanging Out
Derek Thompson The Atlantic
The Road Out of Nowhere
Matt Hanson Quillette
Dating Crisis Fuels Marriage Crisis
Katrina Trinko The Daily Signal
Frontier AI Ethics
Seth Lazar Aeon
Why Does 'Feud' Hate Truman Capote So Much?
J. Bryan Lowder Slate
Was the Constitution a Coup?
Kevin R. C. Gutzman Modern Age
The Gorgeous New Movie ‘Cabrini’ Will Break Your Heart
John Zmirak Chronicles
Cillian Murphy Is the Man of the Moment
Daniel Riley GQ


Friday, February 16
'Loudermilk' Is a Refreshing Comedy in an Unfunny Time
Auguste Meyrat RCBooks
Is Taylor Swift Actually a Good Poet?
Grant Rindner The Ringer
He Polarized Readers by Writing About His Late Wife
Matthew Allan Vanity Fair
The Making of an American Conservative
Pippa Bailey The New Statesman
On Writing
Rob Henderson Rob Henderson's Newsletter
Goulded Cages
Phoebe Maltz Bovy Close-Reading the Reruns
Feminist Correctives
Hermione Hoby New Left Review
Childish Things
Pedro Gonzalez Chronicles
TikTokers Have Some Advice For Joe Biden’s New Account
Rachel Janfaza Politico
The Best Book Written on American Immigration
Jeremy Carl The Course of Empire
How ‘Looksmaxxing’ Is Reshaping Young Men’s Faces
Simon Usborne Guardian
How I Got Scammed Out of $50,000
Charlotte Cowles The Cut
The Bob Marley Movie Continues the Flattening of the Rebel
Jack Hamilton Slate
The Challenges Facing Music Journalism
Feven Merid Columbia Journalism Review
The Drama of 'Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf'?
Scott Bradfield New Republic
Why Are We All So Obsessed With Book Clubs Now?
Olivia Allen Dazed
The Best Soundgarden Songs, Ranked
Steven Hyden Uproxx
The Best Books We Read This Week
Staff The New Yorker
Dave Rubin To Host RealClear’s Inaugural Gala
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Fall of the House of Hitch by Eminent Americans 
Available this week: "The Wisdom of Our Ancestors" by Graham James McAleer & Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul
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