RealClearBooks Week of January 20, 2025 Archives

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Monday, January 20

Meeting David Lynch on the Dreaming Plane

Noah Millman Modern Age

The Momfluencer Who Went to Jail

Kat Rosenfield The Free Press

Zuck is the Zeitgeist

Christine Emba Wisdom of Crowds

Ditch the Grindset

Fred Bauer Commonplace

Spare A Thought For Your Broke Professor

Joshua Doležal Persuasion

Chipotle Stoicism

Spencer Klavan Rejoice Evermore

Who's Afraid of Red Scare?

Vincenzo Barney Barney’s Rubble

An Absurdly American Life

Audrey Lee Athwart

The Alliance Between Tech Titans & the MAGA Faithful

James Pogue NYTimes

David Lynch and The Art Spirit

Blake Nelson Travels to Distant Cities

Here’s Stanley!

Elena Clavarino Air Mail

Can Cornell Steer Away from Campus Madness?

Jack Fowler National Review

BlackRock Stacked Exxon’s Board With Fossil Fuel Haters

Andy Puzder Federalist

David Lynch’s Errand Into the Wilderness

Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack

My Dimes Square Think Piece

Chloe Pingeon Substack

What Do We Do With the Violence of Our Generation?

Mikaela Dery LARB

'Better Man' Is a Standard Biopic, Slightly Monkeyed With

Eileen Jones Jacobin

The Late, Great David Lodge Helped Us to Relax

John Tamny RealClearMarkets

The New Iconoclasm

Nina Power The European Conservative

Edna Ferber’s Frontier Life

Diane Scharper Washington Examiner

Tuesday, January 21

We Also Need Democracy in Aesthetics

Karl Zinsmeister RealClearBooks

The Unsettling Genius of David Lynch

Erik Baker The Nation

Just a Bit Outside

Matt Zoller Seitz Vulture

Trump Can Make The Arts Great Again

Fisher Derderian The Federalist

'The Great Gatsby' at 100

Jonathan Clarke City Journal

The Wild Heart of David Lynch

Matt Feeney UnHerd

Why Trump Brought TikTok Back to Life

Mike Solana Pirate Wires

Fashion Police: Inauguration Edition

Suzy Weiss The Free Press

“Monk Mode” Is Destroying Young Men

Nate Moore The Liberal Patriot

The Monumental Achievement of 'The Brutalist'

David Sexton New Statesman

What's Next?

Ross Barkan Political Currents

The Truth About Fiction

Hannah H. Kim Aeon

Mike Tirico Has a Note for That

Bryan Curtis The Ringer

Unquitting Social Media

Cal Newport The New Yorker

Let It Fly, Low and High

George Monaghan Peaceable Land

The Bowl Games Confound Their Critics

Jeffrey H. Anderson Chronicles

Wednesday, January 22

Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills Are on a Quest

Nora Princiotti The Ringer

The 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025

Adam Morgan Esquire

The Soul of David Lynch

Titus Techera Acton Institute

Literature & Magic: The Marriage of Word and Image

John Pistelli Arcade Publishing

When David Lynch Played It Straight

Dan Kois Slate

Los Angeles and the Literature of the Apocalypse

David L. Ulin Los Angeles Times

Island Royalty

Madison Smartt Bell The American Scholar

The Inimitable Weirdness of David Lynch

John Semley The New Republic

‘Babygirl’ Doesn’t Get What’s So Powerful About Sex

Emina Melonic The Federalist

Ralph Lauren, American Patriot

Isabella Redjai First Things

Dave Chappelle’s Sincere Plea on Saturday Night Live

Hannah Giorgis The Atlantic

Trump Is Uncool. And That’s a Good Thing.

Peter Savodnik The Free Press

The False Dichotomy of Progress vs. Reaction

Richard M. Reinsch II Civitas Institute

Martin Luther King's Vision Anchored in His Christian Faith

Lee Habeeb Newsweek

Ill Legal

The Ivy Exile Substack

Puzder On Stakeholder Capitalism

Andrew Puzder RealClearPolitics

NASA Did Not Invent Velcro

Samuel D. Peterson The Daily Economy

Thursday, January 23

Is Social Media More Like Cigarettes or Junk Food?

Cal Newport The New Yorker

What the Heck Is Going On With TikTok?

Brian Phillips The Ringer

David Lynch's Cigarette Cinema

Meaghan Garvey GQ

Making Space for Silence

Luke Burgis Cluny Journal

Roger Scruton’s The Disappeared, Revisited

Daniel J. Mahoney First Things

Last Boys at the Beginning of History

Mana Afsari The Point

Mock Zuck, but Love Freedom

Santiago Ramos Wisdom of Crowds

David Lynch’s Guts

Vikram Murthi The Nation

Nobody Writes About Violence Like Han Kang

Robert Rubsam Vulture

What the Tech Right Sees in Trump

Shyam Sankar Pirate Wires

Women in Trouble

Max Nelson New Left Review

10 Winter Reads for Cold Nights

Calum Marsh The New York Times

Today’s Populist Rebellion Shouldn’t Alarm Us

Karl Zinsmeister RealClearPolitics

Who Is More Noble: Tim Kaine or Pete Hegseth?

Rob Smith RealClearMarkets

Friday, January 24

How the Academy Awards Adapted to Catastrophe

Michael Schulman New Yorker

The Winners and Losers of the 2025 Oscar Nominations

Miles Surrey The Ringer

Forget the Oscar Noms

Matthew Gasda Wisdom of Crowds

How the World Fell for ‘Romantasy’

Valerie Stivers UnHerd

The Hero and other Cultural Characters

Chris Arnade Substack

TikTok and the First Amendment

Robert G. Natelson Law & Liberty

David Lynch’s Popularity Is a Judgment Against Us

Peter Tonguette AmCon

High and Dry

Barrett Swanson Harper's

The End of DEI

Coleman Hughes The Free Press

Are Cell Phones Destroying Kids’ Mental Health?

Siva Vaidhyanathan New Republic

'Flight Risk' Is Not the Right Kind of Dumb

Alison Willmore Vulture

Not a Cautionary Tale

Sophia Stewart Los Angeles Review of Books

No Going Back for the GOP

Patrick Ruffini Commonplace

Was Dirty Harry a Misogynist?

Melanie Anagnos Substack

‘The Substance’ Is One of the Best Food Movies in Years

Mayukh Sen Eater

Eyes on the Prize: Samizdat

Carl M. Cannon RealClearPolitics

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: 10 Blocks by City Journal

Available this week: "Backbone" by Karl Zinsmeister

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