RealClearBooks Week of February 3, 2025 Archives

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Monday, February 3
The Art of Reading Like a Translator
Lily Meyer The Nation
Inside the Dream Factory
Robbie Collin Air Mail
I Gave Up My Smartphone for a Dumbphone. You Can, Too.
August Lamm NYTimes
DeepSeek Was Inevitable
Steven Sinofsky Pirate Wires
How MAGA Won the ‘Sensitive Young Man’
Mana Afsari The Free Press
REVIEW: ‘Nightbitch’
Madeline Fry Schultz Washington Free Beacon
The Vibe of Things Is the Heart of Things
Joseph M. Keegin The Point’s Substack
At the Sauna: Dispatch from Eternity (Age Thirty-Two)
Jordan Castro Paris Review
Publicans and Privateers
Tal Fortgang The Dispatch
Mike Leigh’s 'Hard Truths' Is Powerful and Tormenting
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Stop Blaming Misinformation for Cynicism and Mistrust
Rob Henderson Substack
The Battle For Better Air
Larissa Schiavo Asimov Press
All 50 DreamWorks Animation Movies, Ranked
James Grebey Vulture
College Football Is Not and Should Not Try to Be the NFL
Brian Koss Chronicles
Sam Altman’s Stargate Is Science Fiction
Kylie Robison The Verge


Tuesday, February 4
An Unusual Cultural Artifact of Religious Revival
Sam Raus RealClearBooks
Luka, LeBron, and a New Level of Lakers Exceptionalism
Danny Chau The Ringer
Why Patrick Bateman Endures
Constance Grady Vox
It’s Not Too Late to Ban Online Sportsbook
Jude Russo Commonplace
Rationalism and its Discontents
Alex Gendler The Point
'Train Dreams' Is a Staggering Work of Art
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
Capitalism Has Killed the Humanities
David Rieff UnHerd
Only Bad Poems Go Viral
Stephanie Yue Duhem Do Not Research
Latinos Would Like a Word with ‘Emilia Pérez’
Giancarlo Sopo IndieWire
Trump Is Right: America’s New Buildings Are Ugly
Justin Shubow City Journal
The Books That Ruin Your Life
Briallen Hopper The New Republic
B-Sides: Gloria Steinem’s “The Beach Book”
Sari Edelstein Public Books
Biohackers Can’t Cheat Death
Pedro Gonzalez Chronicles
The Most Anticipated Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books of 2025
Milan Polk Men's Health
O Canada! Time to Talk Tariffs
Oren Cass Understanding America
Moderation as Pursuit of Justice
Daniel J. Mahoney Modern Age
The Raunchy Right Has Triumphed
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
The Dubious Return of the Brutalists
Daniel Brook The Nation
In Praise of Subspecies
Richard Smyth Aeon


Wednesday, February 5
Who Asked for a Goonies Reboot?
Peter Biles RealClearBooks
Jimmy Butler’s Messy Splits
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Walton Goggins’s Wild Ride to Stardom
Alex Pappademas GQ
On Susan Minot’s 'Don’t Be a Stranger'
Adelle Waldman The Metropolitan Review
Do You Need A.I.?
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Trickle-Down Culture
Emily Jashinsky The Point
The Grammys Actually Got It Right
Carl Wilson Slate
Symptomatic Reading
Grace Byron Los Angeles Review of Books
What Socrates Teaches Us
Agnes Callard The Free Press
The Last Days of American Orange Juice
Yasmin Tayag The Atlantic
Vigdis Hjorth and the Novel of Ugly Love
David Schurman Wallace The Nation
To Win A.I., Go Nuclear
Emmet Penney Compact
6 Best Songs of 2025 (So Far)
Alan Light Esquire
DEEP STATE (they/them) vs. the Wonder Boys
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
The Deep State Loves Free Trade
Nicholas Phillips Commonplace
The Ghettoization of Western Civilization in Universities
Nadya Williams Providence


Thursday, February 6
What if You Threw a Party Tonight?
Allie Volpe Vox
Saquon Barkley Could! Go! All! The! Way!
Katie Baker The Ringer
The Kings of College Radio
Mina Tavakoli The Yale Review
James Madison, Game Theorist
Richard Jordan Law & Liberty
Imani Perry’s Blue Notes
Mychal Denzel Smith The New Republic
'The Brutalist' Is a Confounding but Beautiful Mess
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Leave the Movie Previews Alone
Eric Vilas-Boas Vulture
All Talk
Sam Kean The American Scholar
Too Busy Blurbing Books to Write One
Rebecca Makkai The New York Times
The Owner of the LA Times Takes the Red Pill
Peter Savodnik The Free Press
The Big Finish
Laura Miller Slate
When Louis Armstrong Conquered Chicago
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Immigration Restriction is the Catholic Position
Emile Doak Commonplace
Collectivism in the C-Suite
Stephen R. Soukup National Review
How to Defeat DEI
Gene Callahan Modern Age
The New Coke Revisited
The Ivy Exile Substack


Friday, February 7
How the Oscar Race Got as Messy as “Conclave”
Michael Schulman The New Yorker
Josh Allen Pulled Off a Massive MVP Surprise
Lindsay Jones The Ringer
American Nihilism and Hope
R.J. Snell Law & Liberty
Bridget Jones’s Hollow Feminism
Tanya Gold The New Statesman
The First Slam Dunk
Mike Sielski Air Mail
Please Don’t Ask Horsegirl to Rescue Indie Rock
Mike Hogan Vanity Fair
The Rise of ‘Dark Woke’
Ashley Frawley Compact
The Downfall of Ibram X. Kendi
Christopher F. Rufo City Journal
Vandals of Civilization
Fred Bauer National Review
How the Super Bowl Stole Football’s Soul
Jeff Bloodworth UnHerd
Right Young Things
Kara Kennedy The Spectator
The 10 Best Movies We Saw at Sundance 2025
Josh Rosenberg Esquire
‘Love Hurts’ Review
Kyle Smith Wall Street Journal
Classic Romance Novels: A Starter Pack
Olivia Waite New York Times
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Turning the Cold Shoulder by Compact
Available this week: "A Tyranny for the Good of its Victims" by Andrew F. Puzder
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