RealClearBooks Week of October 7, 2024 Archives

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Monday, October 7
The Flat Provocations of “Joker: Folie à Deux”
Richard Brody The New Yorker
Put Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame
Spencer Neale The American Conservative
‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Review
Sonny Bunch The Bulwark
Al Pacino Is Still Going Big
David Marchese New York Times
The Rising Meaninglessness of College Football Saturdays
John Tamny RCMarkets
No, Culture is Not Stuck
Katherine Dee Wisdom of Crowds
‘Why We Love Football’ Review
Will Leitch Wall Street Journal
'Joker: Folie à Deux' Is a Miserable Musical Slog
Peter Suderman Reason
Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’
John Podhoretz Washington Free Beacon
Seeing Like a Simulation
Celine Nguyen Los Angeles Review of Books
Sally Rooney’s Millennials Grow Up
Hannah Rosefield The New Republic
Eligible Bachelors
James Kirchick Air Mail
Against Humility
Rachel Fraser Aeon
On 'Megalopolis'
Nick Pinkerton 4Columns
Sex and Conservative Hot Girls
Sarah Wilder Chronicles


Tuesday, October 8
The Year of Snoop Dogg
Justin Charity The Ringer
The Killers’ Return to Las Vegas
Hanif Abdurraqib The New Yorker
Anthony Fauci, the Man Who Thought He Was Science
Jay Bhattacharya Reason
The Fables of Davos Man
Sam Buntz The Critic
Wikipedia Is Becoming a Pay-to-Play Scheme
Ashley Rindsberg Pirate Wires
On the Remarkable Legacy of Lewis Lapham
Elias Altman LitHub
'Joker 2' Is So Bad It’s Almost Laughable
Dana Stevens Slate
The Unintended Brilliance of 'Dead Poets Society'
J. R. Gage Law & Liberty
Citizen Nation: An Intimate Look at Students and Teachers
Charles Sahm RCEd
Author & Aviator
Tom Lamont Literary Review
The Empty Promise of 'Megalopolis'
Stephen Kearse The Nation
Is 'Joker: Folie à Deux' Flopping?
Chris Murphy Vanity Fair
How Woke is Woke?
The Ivy Exile Substack
On Unaffected Pleasure
Trevor Cribben Merrill The Line of Beauty
We Are in Need of Renaissance People
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness


Wednesday, October 9
The Poet
Matthew Gasda RealClearBooks
Blue Walls Falling Down
Joshua Hren RealClearBooks
The Faith of Michel Houellebecq
Trevor Cribben Merrill Compact
Hannah and Her Resisters
Nathan Pinkoski First Things
The Professional Idiots Are in Trouble
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
The Cultural Contradictions of a New Elite
Aaron Weinacht Front Porch Republic
Joker: Folie à Deux Torpedoes Joker’s Melodramatic Power
Eileen Jones Jacobin
The Silencing of Sylvia Plath
Lynne Feeley The Nation
Written on the Body
Rumaan Alam Esquire
Partying Toward A Better World With Emily Witt
Sophia June Language Arts
The End of the Public Intellectual
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Surface and Substance in 'May/December'
Anna Krauthamer Cleveland Review of Books
Clan of the Cave Bore
Marco Roth Tablet
France’s Most Controversial Novelist
Wyatt Mason New York Times Magazine
I’m Going to See a New Play
Mark Judge Chronicles


Thursday, October 10
Can the Jets Salvage This Season?
Steven Ruiz The Ringer
Ryan Murphy’s Latest Era of Cynical Hits
Inkoo Kang The New Yorker
How the US Military Ditched Merit
William Thibeau Compact
Is Social Conservatism a Luxury Belief?
Matthew Walther The Lamp
Lionel Shriver and the Resistance to Satire
Lee Oser Acton Institute
Home Libraries Will Save Civilization
Nadya Williams Front Porch Republic
A Conversation between Sally Rooney and Merve Emre
Merve Emre Paris Review
On Name-calling
Roger Kimball TomKlingenstein.com
A People’s History of Free Speech
Teresa M. Bejan Persuasion
Your Awokening Isn’t Special
Geoff Shullenberger UnHerd
DEI Is Transforming the National Science Foundation
Rupa Subramanya Free Press
Alba de Céspedes’s Marriage Plot Polemic
Rachel Vorona Cote The Nation
God Bless the Misfits
Alberto Mingardi Law & Liberty
A Giant of a Man
Eric Wills The American Scholar


Friday, October 11
The 85 Best Quentin Tarantino Characters Ever, Ranked
Staff The Ringer
The Greatest Knicks Team That Never Was
Sam Schube GQ
Do Men Even Like Women Anymore?
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
Rachel Kushner on 'Creation Lake'
Grace Byron Interview Magazine
On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy
Michael Lynn Crews LitHub
Commit Lit
Joseph M. Keegin The Point
How DEI Is Harassing Yoga Studios
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
Coming of Age in the Graphic Novels of Charles Burns
Dustin Illingworth The Baffler
Woke Is Here To Stay
Sam Kahn Persuasion
Francis Ford Coppola’s American Panorama
Fred Bauer Fusion
On Alejandro Zambra’s 'Childish Literature'
Colm McKenna Cleveland Review of Books
The Author in Evening
Laura Miller Slate
The Spy Who Lied to Us
Eli Lake The Free Press
The NFL’s Newest Superstars Are Kickers
Andrew Beaton & Rosie Ettenheim WSJ
The Decline and Fall of Rock
Alexander G. Rubio Chronicles
Ayahuasca Offers a Uniquely Powerful Psychedelic Purge
Rob Long The Daily Beast
Wilbur Ross Dishes on Donald Trump
Ian Mohr Page Six
Dakota Fanning Is Finally Letting Loose
Gracie Hadland The Cut
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Dark Side of Jane Austen by First Things
Available this week: "Let Me Try Again" by Matthew Davis
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