RealClearBooks Week of December 30, 2024 Archives

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Monday, December 30
Printing the Legend
Ronald Radosh Quillette
55 Favorite Sports Moments of 2024
Staff The Ringer
In Defense of the Great American Sleepover
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Books We Loved Reading in 2024
Staff Persuasion
How Trump Can Help America Celebrate 250 Years
Fred Bauer City Journal
The Return of the Eunuch
Samuel Biagetti Compact
The Epic Mess at TGI Fridays
Heather Haddon Wall Street Journal
A “Modern-Day Casablanca”
Josh Karp Air Mail
The Future of AI Shouldn’t Be Taken at Face Value
John Herrman Intelligencer
Is the Tradwife Just a Kink?
Poppy Sowerby UnHerd
Welcome to the Femosphere
Rachael Healy The Guardian
‘Nosferatu’ and ‘The Brutalist’ Reviews
Sonny Bunch The Bulwark
Science Fiction with a Soul
Bradley J. Birzer Modern Age
The Tom Hanks Movie That Critics Hated
K. Austin Collins Slate


Tuesday, December 31
How Intellectuals Found God
Peter Savodnik The Free Press
Refinding James Baldwin
Doreen St. Félix The New Yorker
'Nosferatu' Steps Into the 21st Century
Spencer Neale The American Conservative
The Drama and Suffering of the World Chess Championship
J.C. Hallman Nation
Temu’s Takeover Is Now Complete
Zeyi Yang Wired
TV’s Year of Big Disappointments
Phillip Maciak The New Republic
Behind the Teacher Exodus
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
Ghosts of Electricity
Thomas Larson Quillette
Walt Whitman: the Original Substacker
Sam Kahn UnHerd
Books of 2024: A Year in Reading
Tevi Troy National Review
In His Reading, Jimmy Carter Favored 'Anything but Politics'
Douglas Brinkley NYT
The Definitive Ranking of Vampires in Pop Culture
Miles Surrey The Ringer
'Nosferatu' Is a Flawed Triumph
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Maeve Brennan’s New York
Harry Mount Air Mail
How RealClear Will Cover the New Administration
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics


Wednesday, January 1
America Should Not Become a Nation of Tiger Moms
River Page The Free Press
The Ex–Tennis Stars Grinding It Out on the Pickleball Tour
Caira Conner NYMag
Why History Is Always Political
Rosario López Aeon
Reel Treasure
Peter Bradshaw Air Mail
Daniel Defoe’s Journeys of the Mind
Malcolm Forbes Engelsberg Ideas
How Bad Is Bypassing Paywalls?
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
The Hipster Grifter Tells All
Amanda Hess New York Times
'Landman' Is in Love With Myths
Kate Aronoff The New Repubic
My 2024 in Reading
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Trapped—And Lavishly Rewarded—For Playing a Part
Sophie Gilbert The Atlantic
Speaking Humor to Power
Bradley J. Birzer Law & Liberty
Norman Mailer Changed the Face of Biography
Robert Dean Lurie Spectator World


Thursday, January 2
What We’re Reading to Start the New Year
Staff The New Yorker
Want to Be Happier?
Esther Haynes The Free Press
Will Video Kill the Audio Star in 2025?
Nicholas Quah Vulture
The Pop Girls Ruled 2024
Nora Princiotti The Ringer
Winter Books
Micah Mattix Prufrock
Unmasked and Anonymous
Benjamin Kerstein Quillette
What Happened to the Prime Time Buffaloes?
Spencer Neale American Conservative
How John Updike Invented Brat
Sarah Ditum UnHerd
The Village of Archery Was A Plantation
John Byron Kuhner Substack
An Outrageous Novel About U.S. Politics
Alexander Nazaryan New York Times
On (Not Quite) Making It
Jonathan Clarke City Journal
The Best Books of 2025—A Preview
Staff Vogue


Friday, January 3
The End of Fun in the NBA
Oliver Bateman RealClearBooks
The Year of Spicy Literary Fiction
Claire McNear The Ringer
The Twenty-Five Best Movies of 2024
A. S. Hamrah n+1
Tom Holland's New Superpower
Lauren Larson Men's Health
Timothée Chalamet Does Dylan
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, and the Art of the Smear
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
A Prophet of Modern Politics
Max Skjönsberg Law & Liberty
Screen Culture vs. Book Culture
Sam Buntz The Muted Trumpet
New You? Or Old Books?
Elizabeth Stice Current
Not a Complete Flop
Russ Smith Splice Today
Is There Any Escape from the Spotify Syndrome?
Hua Hsu The New Yorker Magazine
Why Girls Deserve a Drink
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
On Tim Matheson's 'Damn Glad to Meet You'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Inside the Plan to Teach Robots the Laws of War
Rebecca McCarthy New Republic
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: "Friday Night Lights" With Bill Simmons by The Ringer
Available this week: "Didion and Babitz" by Lili Anolik
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