RealClearBooks Week of January 27, 2025 Archives

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Monday, January 27
The Bills Are a Footnote in the Chiefs’ AFC Dynasty
Nora Princiotti The Ringer
Zadie Smith’s Multicultural Fantasy
Ralph Leonard UnHerd
Materialism on the Ropes
Tyler Hummel Law & Liberty
'Doomers' Looks at What AI Means for the Future
Matthew Gasda Spectator World
Vibe Drift
James Duesterberg The Point’s Substack
Dreaming About Going Back to the Land? I Did It.
Larissa Phillips The Free Press
Young Man, There’s a Place You Can Go
Blake Smith Air Mail
The Rocksteady Crew
David Polansky Café Américain
The Remarkably Quiet Death of Tackle Football
John Ziegler Chronicles
Learning to Listen
Max Alper The Baffler
Lou Mathews Knows a Tale or Two About ‘Hollywoodski’
Gary Goldstein LA Times
Requiem for the Paper Pusher
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
Amor Towles Triumphs With 'Table for Two'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Caroline Blackwood’s Graceful Nightmares
Isabella Trimboli The Nation
TikTok Can Be Bad, But Banning It Would Be Worse
Julian Adorney Daily Economy
Why Scott Turow Brought Back His Most Famous Hero
Sarah Lyall New York Times
A Farewell to Norms
Tal Fortgang Washington Free Beacon
Anora’s Body and Soul
Cliff Smith Providence


Tuesday, January 28
Catherine Breillat’s Unsettling Cinema of Desire
Victoria Uren The New Yorker
The Eagles Offense Finally Looks Super Bowl Ready
Diante Lee The Ringer
Great American Misfire
Naomi Kanakia The Metropolitan Review
Tony Tulathimutte and the Literary Vibe Shift
Hamilton Craig Compact
How Do We Understand Culture?
Ross Barkan Political Currents
‘Emilia Pérez’ and the Curse of Oscar Bait
River Page The Free Press
The Buffalo Bills Have Put Their Fans in a Trap
Alex Kirshner Slate
David Lynch’s Electric Dreams and Atomic Nightmares
Alexander Deley Jacobin
David Brooks Misunderstands the Miseducation of Elites
Peter Berkowitz RCPolitics
The Looming Climate vs. AI Civil War
Parker Briden The American Mind
The Impossible Object of Queer Desire
Stephen G. Adubato First Things
What Women Want
Ivana Greco Commonplace
How Much Would You Pay for Inner Peace?
Dave Holmes Esquire
Watergate and the Media’s Addiction Problem
Mark Judge Chronicles
I Hate That I Hate the Chiefs
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Trump’s ‘Energy Emergency’ and the IEA
Mark P. Mills & Neil Atkinson WSJ


Wednesday, January 29
My Life on the Subway
Keith Gessen The New Yorker
Walking the Fault Line
Srikanth Reddy Poetry Foundation
The Polymath of Pittsburgh
Daniel Kolitz The Nation
DeepSeek Is a Wake-Up Call. Is America Listening?
Geoffrey Cain The Free Press
American Upanishad
Mónica Belevan IM—1776
'The Pitt' Is a Defiantly Different Hospital Drama
Phillip Maciak The New Republic
MAGA Is the New Black
Isabella Redjai City Journal
On Bruce Wagner's Remarkable Oeuvre
John Pistelli The Metropolitan Review
Empire of Signs
Robert Rubsam Commonweal
Bob Dylan’s American Odyssey
E.J. Hutchinson Modern Age
The Case for Kicking the Stone
Philip Ball Los Angeles Review of Books
America Has Lost Faith in Genius
Matt Rowland Hill UnHerd
The Ends of Innocence
Erik Anderson Cleveland Review of Books


Thursday, January 30
How the Capybara Won My Heart
Gary Shteyngart The New Yorker
The 2024-25 NBA Midseason Awards
Michael Pina The Ringer
The Name’s Melania, Melania Trump
Kara Kennedy Spectator World
A Flawed Novel Addresses a Failed Utopia
Tara Isabella Burton The Metropolitan Review
The Matrix or Lord of the Rings. Choose Wisely.
Josh Herring Acton Institute
Reflecting on the AI Crisis in Higher Education
Philip D. Bunn Fusion
Trump and MAGA Embrace Their Own Form of Wokeness
Ross Barkan NYMag
'Emilia Pérez' Is Not a Good Movie
Jack Hamilton Slate
Why DeepSeek Is a Gift to the American People
Alex Rampell The Free Press
New Right Needs Conservative Eclecticism
Samuel Hammond TomKlingenstein.com
Hard Knock Life
Heather Radke The Baffler
15 Observations About Artificial Intelligence
Yascha Mounk Substack
The End of Index-Fund Activism
Mark Pulliam Law & Liberty
Remembering 'Twin Peaks'
Steve Rose Air Mail


Friday, January 31
Green and Pleasant Land
Kazuo Robinson RealClearBooks
What Michael Crichton Reveals About Big Tech and A.I.
Cal Newport New Yorker
How Shoplifting Got So Bad
Nic Rowan Commonplace
Drone Horizons
G.B. Rango Pirate Wires
The Shocking Realism of David Lynch
Titus Techera Fusion
How Zyn Conquered the American Mouth
Emily Sundberg GQ
The Return of Snake Oil
Shayla Love The Atlantic
Virtual Salvation
John Stachelski Cluny Journal
The Salty, Briny, Lemony, Garlicky Rise of “Pick Me” Foods
Rebecca Jennings Vox
Urgent Messages from Eternity
Deborah Eisenberg New York Review of Books
Why Children’s Books?
Katherine Rundell London Review of Books
Is It Cool to Be Right-Wing Now?
Suzy Weiss & Josh Code The Free Press
Netflix Unveils 2025 Film Slate
Katcy Stephan Variety
Beware the Impurity Spiral
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
Eyes on the Prize: Samizdat
Carl M. Cannon RealClearPolitics
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Do LLMs Dream of Electric Muses? by Contra
Available this week: "A Tyranny for the Good of its Victims" by Andrew F. Puzder
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