RealClearBooks Week of April 8, 2024 Archives

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Monday, April 8
The Secret Shame of Smoking Moms
Emily Gould The Cut
Chasing Rainbows
Kat Rosenfield Air Mail
The Grateful Dead’s Afterlife
David Polansky Café Américain
The Phantasmagoric World of Judith Butler
Alex Byrne Fairer Disputations
What Liberals Get Wrong About ‘White Rural Rage’
Nicholas F. Jacobs Politico
We Are All Tom Ripley
Ryan Ruby New Statesman
Lessons of a Forgotten Campus Scandal
Alanna Schubach Compact
The Duplicity of Percival Everett’s Literary Worlds
John-Baptiste Oduor ArtReview
The Moynihan and Buckley Era
Jesse Adams Washington Examiner
'Dune's' Moral Unseriousness
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
Should Art Be Time Capsules?
Chris Jesu Lee Salieri Redemption
When Jazz Struck a Chord
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon
Exploring Beyond the Internet
Emina Melonic Chronicles
In Beyoncé’s Country, All Are Welcome
Alex Hawgood W Magazine
Why 'Carrie' Is Still Scary
Neil McRobert Esquire
Shogun: A Swashbuckling Show That Cares About History
Bei Tenno Modern Age
'No Judgement' by Lauren Oyler — Saying It Like It Is
Chris Allnutt Financial Times
Review: Adelle Waldman's Help Wanted
Freddie deBoer Substack


Tuesday, April 9
Unpacking the Shohei Ohtani Scandal
Emily Nemens LitHub
An Interview With Maggie Nelson
Lauren Michele Jackson New Yorker
Bring Back The Culture of Debate!
Ross Barkan Persuasion
The New Defenders of the Faith
Sheluyang Peng Tablet
Shōgun Is Reinventing the TV Epic
Phillip Maciak New Republic
The Last Man
Daniel Bessner The Nation
The Right Balance
Fred Bauer City Journal
Why We Need More Kurt Cobains
Lias Saoudi UnHerd
Why ‘Shogun’ (and the Rest of TV) Is Slightly Out of Focus
Ben Lindbergh Ringer
'The Talented Mr. Ripley' Is a Perfect Striver Gothic
Constance Grady Vox
Colin Farrell’s Brilliant New Detective Show
Laura Miller Slate
Could AI Make Us Wise?
Elle Griffin The Elysian
C. S. Lewis was Right on History
Jack Nicholson Providence Magazine
Finding Their Own Way Out
Alexandra Hudson Wall Street Journal
Libertarians and Civic Virtue
Daniel B. Klein PowerLine


Wednesday, April 10
How Larry David Made Magic
Katie Baker The Ringer
Maggie Rogers’s Journey from Viral Fame to Religion
Amanda Petrusich New Yorker
How NPR Lost America's Trust
Uri Berliner The Free Press
Star Struck
Ann Manov Bookforum
Man and Machine in World War II
Titus Techera Acton Institute
Optimization Will Not Save You
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
The Delta Variant
George Case Quillette
'Civil War' Was Made in Anger
David Sims The Atlantic
A Turning Point in the Battle of the Bulge
Helen Dale Law & Liberty
Lauren Oyler Wishes You’d Fact-Check Your Reviews
Steven Phillips-Horst Interview
On Buckley, PBS Gives Us a Man in Part, Not in Full
Neal B. Freeman National Review
All a Matter of Tense
Anthony Domestico Commonweal
PBS Misremembers William F. Buckley Jr.
Daniel McCarthy NYPost


Thursday, April 11
The Great American Speculator
Matthew Gasda RealClearBooks
How ‘The Outsiders’ Invented the YA Novel
Meghan Cox Gurdon Wall Street Journal
Park Chan-wook Gets the Picture He Wants
Jia Tolentino The New Yorker
Civil War: What Is It Good For?
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
The Secret to Women's College Basketball's Success
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
The Death (and Life) of Takedown Culture
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Maybe You're Not Anxiously Attached
Freya India GIRLS
Love in a Remotely-Controlled Climate
Nina Power The Critic
Rob Henderson on Reliving His Traumatic Childhood
Sophie McBain New Statesman
Nicholson Baker Learns to Draw
Lisa Borst Bookforum
Lauren Oyler and Literary Criticism in the Age of the Internet
Alana Pockros Nation
Reads to Lose Your Mind To
Juliet Escoria Melville House
Mark Knopfler on the Most Wistful Music of His Career
Devon Ivie Vulture
The Rise and Fall of The Village Voice
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Did Social Media Kill the Pop Song?
Jason Parham Wired
Where Did It All Go Wrong for J.Lo?
Justin Charity The Ringer
The Director Reclaiming Amy Winehouse’s Soul
Rebecca Keegan Hollywood Reporter
'Civil War' Plays Like a Nightmare
Dana Stevens Slate
Starship Troopers: Heinlein’s Classic Realism
James Rowell Providence


Friday, April 12
The Dumbphone Boom Is Real
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
America Is Sick of Swiping
Lora Kelley The Atlantic
The Humane Genius of ‘Curb Your Enthusiasm’
Noah Rinsky The Free Press
The War for Sydney Sweeney’s Breasts
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
For Every Novelist, an Alt
Alexandra Tanner Dirt
There Are Too Many Books
Maris Kreizman LitHub
Is Mary Oliver a Good Poet?
Henry Oliver The Common Reader
War Is Hell, Ain’t It?
Adam Nayman The Ringer
Review: Lauren Oyler's "No Judgment"
Freddie deBoer Substack
Robert Downey Jr. Doesn’t See Things the Way You Do
Ryan D'Agostino Esquire
Fifty Years Later, Henry Aaron’s Legacy Lives On
Michael Lee Washington Post
Several Attempts at Understanding Percival Everett
Tadhg Hoey The Millions
O.J. Simpson’s Strange Internet Afterlife
Oliver Bateman UnHerd
A Salon for ‘Nones’
Maggie Phillips Tablet
Rethinking Thinking
Luis Pablo de la Horra Law & Liberty
Christopher Rufo vs Curtis Yarvin
Christopher Rufo & Curtis Yarvin IM—1776
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Chaos Coordinators by City Journal
Available this week: "Keeping the Republic" by Dennis Hale & Marc Landy
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