RealClearBooks Week of February 26, 2024 Archives

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Monday, February 26
The Prime of Their Lives
Chris Payne The Ringer
Who Is Reading Even for Anymore?
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
Playing God With AI
Alex Taylor Law & Liberty
Queen of Rap
Bijan Stephen The Nation
Refuse To Be a Human Billboard
Salomé Sibonex The Black Sheep
How Luxury Beliefs of an Educated Elite Erode Society
Rob Henderson The Times
“Livelier Than You Are, Whoever You Are”
Corbin K. Barthold City Journal
The Last of the Brooklyn Dodgers
Richard Staff Defector
History on the Bluff
Malcolm Brooks View From the Bluff
'Dune: Part Two' Unleashes the Terrible Power of Paul
David Klion New Republic
The Chaotic, Irreplaceable Wendy Williams
Melinda Fakuade Vox
Why I Hope My Parents Won’t Read My Novel
RO Kwon Guardian
Living in Arendt’s World
Blake Smith The Ideas Letter
The Case for a Theocentric Right
Andrew T. Walker National Review
Never-Ending Love Story
Allison P. Davis Vulture
From a Broken Home to a Broken Institution
Christine Rosen Washington Free Beacon


Tuesday, February 27
The Novelist as Information Machine
Matthew Gasda RealClearBooks
The Arrested Development of Carson McCullers
Maggie Doherty The New Yorker
The Unlikely Rise of the Ivy League Hooper
Gerald Narciso GQ
What’s a Coen Brother’s Movie Without a Coen Brother?
Adam Nayman The Ringer
An Arthurian Brit in the Land of the Free
Tyler Hummel Law & Liberty
Keep Uniforms Uniform
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
‘Office Space’ at 25
Ryan Gajewski The Hollywood Reporter
The New 'Dune' Will Turn Even Skeptics Into Believers
Dana Stevens Slate
Miles Davis and the Recording of a Jazz Masterpiece
James Kaplan Esquire
Do Nielsen Ratings Really Reflect What People Want?
Josef Adalian Vulture
Vertex Is the Last Good Place Online
Megan Greenwell Wired
Fentanyl Is Killing American Kids
James Fishback The Free Press
The Princess and the Girlboss
Kat Rosenfield Pirate Wires
A New Voice in Fiction With a Mean Left Hook
Dwight Garner New York Times
When I Quit Drinking, Shirley Temples Made Going Out Fun
Rax King Bon Appétit
Is Sin Private? A Reflection on "Ryan's Daughter"
Andrew Fowler RealClearReligion
Appreciating 'Casablanca'
Dan Klein Bet On It
We Are the Poorer for 'Poor Things'
Armond White National Review
What Shane Gillis Proved on SNL
Jeremy Gordon The Atlantic


Wednesday, February 28
Lord Byron Was More Than Just Byronic
Anthony Lane The New Yorker
‘Shogun’ Is High-Stakes Event TV at Its Finest
Miles Surrey The Ringer
The Age of the News Influencer
Fred Skulthorp The Critic
Are We Treating Gen Z’s Mental Health Crisis All Wrong?
Katrina Trinko Daily Signal
Tommy Orange Refuses to Be Your Tour Guide to Native Life
Morgan Talty Esquire
Meet Me at the Melting Pot?
Amy McCarthy Eater
Folklore Is Philosophy
Abigail Tulenko Aeon
Do I Really Need to Op-Ed to Sell Books?
Tajja Isen Vulture
In Defense of Pick-up Artistry
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
New Samizdat Prize Makes Good Journalism Real Clear
Salena Zito DC Examiner
Donald Duck and Bugs Bunny Fight Fascism
Jacob Bielecki Quillette
March 2024’s Must-Read Book Releases
Sophia June Nylon
Essay #2: Words, Words, Words
Andrew Klavan The New Jerusalem
The Left Lives on Fake History
Derek Turner TomKlingenstein.com
The Battle for Twitter’s Soul
Cassandra Cassidy Morning Brew
Critique of Artificial Reason
Sean Michaels The Baffler


Thursday, February 29
The Sterile Spectacle of “Dune: Part Two”
Justin Chang The New Yorker
How Do You Solve a Problem like Reacher?
Peter Tonguette Acton Institute
They’re All Bono Now
Jacob Phillips Spiked
Spring Books
Micah Mattix Prufrock
Talking to Young Man About Andrew Tate
Ben Sixsmith The Critic
When Every Day is a Mental Health Day
Kay S. Hymowitz City Journal
O Comedy, Where Art Thou?
Emina Melonic Chronicles
Dust to Dust
Helen Rouner Commonweal
A Grim View of Marriage—And an Exhortation to Leave It
Lily Meyer The Atlantic
Radical Moderates
Matthew Gasda The New Criterion
The Enigma of Simone Weil
Katie Tobin Verso
Personality Tests Aren’t All the Same
Spencer Greenberg Scientific American
Back to School
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
Jack Sweeney: Troll? Stalker? Or Free Speech Hero?
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Why Jack Dorsey's Failure Led to Elon Musk
Peter Kafka Business Insider
The Life and Times of a Niche Rapper
Stephen Kearse The Nation
15 New Books Coming in March
Staff New York Times
Ralph Waldo Emerson, a Tantalizing, Unsentimental Prophet
David Mikics Tablet
Are We Taking Robert De Niro for Granted?
Sam Adams Slate


Friday, March 1
Can You Really Want an Oscar Too Much?
Michael Schulman The New Yorker
How Vice Lost the Future
Clive Martin The New Statesman
The Master of Oversharing
Jason Diamond Vulture
How Universities Killed the Academic
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
Sebald and His Precursors
Federico Perelmuter Southwest Review
On Robert Glück’s “About Ed”
Alina Stefanescu Cleveland Review of Books
The G League Isn’t Just for NBA Long Shots Anymore
Zach Kram The Ringer
Raise Your Own Damn Kids
Josh Herring Acton Institute
Tomorrow, We Will All Be Memes
Chris Jesu Lee Salieri Redemption
Desire in a Postsecular Age
Alexandra Davis & Luke Burgis Public Discourse
Fixer Upper: Larry McMurtry’s Library
Colin Ainsworth The Paris Review
The Last Chronicler of a Lost World
Edward Serotta Tablet
Why All the Internet’s Boyfriends Are Irish
Kyndall Cunningham Vox
Dining Out Is About to Look a Lot Different
Corey Mintz Business Insider
Why Hitch Still Matters
Marius Sosnowski Los Angeles Review of Books
Dave Rubin To Host 'The Rubin Report' at RealClear Gala
David DesRosiers RCP
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Why Americans Stopped Hanging Out by The Ringer
Available this week: "The Wisdom of Our Ancestors" by Graham James McAleer & Alexander S. Rosenthal-Pubul
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