RealClearBooks Week of March 25, 2024 Archives

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Monday, March 25
Why Does the “Road House” Remake Pull Its Punches?
Justin Chang New Yorker
Should the U.S. Ban TikTok?
Isaac Grafstein The Free Press
The Unbearable Rightness of Professor-Speak
Jordan Castro Compact
Looking for Lorca in New York
Zain Khalid The Paris Review
On the Bard’s Four-Hundred-Year Legacy
Amit Majmudar The New Criterion
Running After the Cult of Beauty
Clare Coffey The Bulwark
100 Years of 'Billy Budd'
Lafayette Lee IM—1776
You Can’t Trust Your Kids’ Schools
Ashley Colby Fairer Disputations
How Phones Warped Gen Z
Marc Novicoff Politico Magazine
All That Is Solid Melts into Theory
James Kirchick Air Mail
How Jesse Plemons Came to Star in Everything
Sean O'Neal Texas Monthly
Percival Everett's New Novel Is a Modern Classic
Adrienne Westenfeld Esquire
Human Dignity and the Politics of Dune
Kody W. Cooper Law & Liberty
Why We Demand Kate’s Sacrifice
Mary Harrington UnHerd
Infernal Affair
Alexander Larman Washington Free Beacon
Proudly Provincial
Joshua Doggrell Chronicles
Writing My Autobiography
Joseph Epstein First Things
Habeas Corpus
Springs Toledo City Journal
'Road House' Remake Crackles With Unruly Energy
Stephanie Zacharek Time


Tuesday, March 26
The Battle for Hope
Stephen G. Adubato RealClearBooks
Michael Imperioli Knows Art Can’t Save Us
Zach Helfand The New Yorker
On Percival Everett’s “James”
Matt Seybold Cleveland Review of Books
Inside the New Wave of Old-School Education
Julia Steinberg The Free Press
A 'Royale' Lineage
Matt Zoller Seitz Vulture
A Conversation with Adelle Waldman
Ross Barkan Political Currents
On Alexandra Tanner’s “Worry”
Leah Abrams Los Angeles Review of Books
At Mathias Énard’s Table
Dustin Illingworth The Nation
Steeped in Fragility
Carolyn D. Gorman City Journal
A Conversation with Louise Erdrich
Sterling HolyWhiteMountain The Paris Review
12 Things I Learned from René Girard
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Lost on the Other Side of Service
Luther Ray Abel National Review
Anatomy of a Fad
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
Steve Austin Turned “Texas Tough” Into Megacelebrity
Nadine Smith Texas Monthly
Duty, Honor, Nothing
Citizen Soldier RealClearDefense
Mr. Met Is the Most Misunderstood Mascot in Baseball
Joe Posnanski Esquire
Marriage: The Most Essential Christian Institution
Nadya Williams Providence
The Virtue of Slow Writers
Lauren Alwan The Millions
The Caitlin Clark Phenomenon
Seerat Sohi The Ringer


Wednesday, March 27
When New York Made Baseball
Adam Gopnik The New Yorker
We Don’t Know Shohei Ohtani, and That’s Not Helping Him
Will Leitch Intelligencer
Dune, Belief, and the Entrepreneur Messiah
Sohrab Ahmari The American Conservative
Who’s Afraid of Andrew Huberman?
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
When All Is Cultural, Nothing Is Natural
Brian A. Smith Acton Institute
Satirizing Gentrification in ‘The Curse’
Ellena Basada High Country News
A Deed of Eternity
Brian Patrick Eha Poetry Foundation
Muse among the Drafts: Part I
Alice Gribbin Notes of an Aesthete
Blockchains Alone Won’t Reinvent the Web
Luke Hogg City Journal
Alexandra Tanner on Her "Seinfeldian" Novel
Anna Dorn Hobart
Unplugged
Abigail Anthony National Review
Blaming Tech for Teen Troubles
Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason
A Clear-Eyed Look at the Early Obama Years
Danielle Amir Jackson The Atlantic
On Productivity
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
Beyoncé’s Country Roots
Avishay Artsy Vox
Fashion Girls Are Shopping via Substack
Isabelle Truman Vogue Business
On Nationhood and Nations
Daniel J. Mahoney American Mind
John Gray: In Conversation
Gene Callahan Modern Age
With Melville in Pittsfield
J. D. Daniels The Paris Review
The Odd Couples of “Drive-Away Dolls”
Vikram Murthi The Nation


Thursday, March 28
How Old Do I Look?
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
The 2024 MLB Preseason Power Rankings
Zach Kram The Ringer
The Author of "Worry" in Conversation with Sasha Fletcher
Sasha Fletcher LitHub
The Film Fans Who Refuse to Surrender to Streaming
J. Oliver Conroy Guardian
Hanif Abdurraqib Knows What Makes Basketball Great
Matthew Salesses Esquire
Bob Iger’s Invincible Era Is Over
Alex Weprin The Hollywood Reporter
How Kate Middleton Shamed the Internet
Anna Russell The New Yorker
Breeding Immortal Beings
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
Why We Mustn’t Ban TikTok
Thomas Fazi UnHerd
The Future of ‘Star Trek’
Adam B. Vary Variety
Mystic Without a Church
Jaspreet Singh Boparai Quillette
The Confessions of an Art Fraudster Extraordinaire
Mark Seal Vanity Fair
The Rick Rubin Guide to Creativity
James Parker The Atlantic
The Tragedy of Pete Rose
Will Leitch Wall Street Journal


Friday, March 29
Can We Get Kids Off Smartphones?
Jessica Winter The New Yorker
What Is Going On With Diddy?
Nadira Goffe Slate
Social Contract
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
On the Threshold
Ryan Ruby New Left Review
Lauren Oyler Doesn’t Take Her Work Too Seriously
Chris Black GQ
This Is Not a Cowboy Hat
Nora Princiotti The Ringer
Rescuing Identity Politics
Sohale Mortazavi Quillette
Did We Really Need Kaiju to Get All Cute?
Alison Willmore Vulture
Phone-Based Childulthood
Chris Jesu Lee Salieri Redemption
In ‘Worry,’ Illness Is the Status Quo
Irene Katz Connelly The Millions
Fables of the Lone Star Liberal
Sam Russek The Nation
Justin’s Dilemma
Sarah Ditum The Critic
The Real Crisis in Humanities
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Twilight of the Wonks
Walter Russell Mead Tablet
The Tailspin of American Boys and Men
Brenda M. Hafera The American Conservative
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Fighting Back Against Progressive 'Neo-Racism' by Quillette
Available this week: "Family Unfriendly" by Timothy P. Carney
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