RealClearBooks Week of February 10, 2025 Archives

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Monday, February 10
The Inescapable Fact of This Year’s Shocking Super Bowl
Alex Kirshner Slate
The Old-School Heroics of “The Pitt”
Inkoo Kang The New Yorker
The Blind Spot: On Rita Bullwinkel’s 'Headshot'
Alex Perez Metropolitan Review
The Ghost in the Machine
Sam Venis Air Mail
Mister Lonely
Leo Robson New Left Review
John Coltrane's 'Love Is Still Supreme' at Age 60
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Give the NEA Back to the Public
Michael Astrue First Things
The Work of Celebration
Ivana Greco The Dispatch
Writer's Diary
Matthew Gasda Novalis
How American Educators Are Conning Kids
Frannie Block The Free Press
You Are Having Fun
Will Gottsegen Los Angeles Review of Books
4 New Detective Novels Worth Investigating
Sarah Weinman New York Times
A New, Unbearably Honest Kind of Writing
Boris Kachka The Atlantic
Carson's Century
Andrew Ferguson Washington Free Beacon
Defund NPR? It’s About Time
Jon Miltimore The Daily Economy


Tuesday, February 11
Kendrick Lamar’s Meta-Performance at the Super Bowl
Doreen St. Félix New Yorker
Where Did All the Good Bars Go?
David Coggins Esquire
My Afternoon With the ‘Normal Gay Guys’ Who Voted Trump
Daniel Lefferts GQ
The Malicious Joy of Watching the Chiefs Crumble
Brian Phillips The Ringer
How to Dress Like a Gentleman—And Why
Elliot Ackerman The Free Press
The Totalitarian Impulse Then and Now
Daniel J. Mahoney TomKlingenstein.com
The Haunting Fiction of Han Kang
Lily Meyer The New Republic
Tove Ditlevsen’s Worn-Out Language
Olga Ravn The Paris Review
Skip ‘Yellowstone’ for This Rawer Version of the West
Ian McGuire New York Times
The Fessio Phenomenon
Lee Oser University Bookman
Don’t Stop ’til You Get Enough
Ed Potton Air Mail
On the Old Romantics
Becca Rothfeld The Point
Charles Kesler’s Struggle for the Constitution
Richard M. Reinsch II Law & Liberty


Wednesday, February 12
Mike White’s Mischievous Vision
Kelefa Sanneh New Yorker
Can Pat Riley Build One Last Contender?
Wes Goldberg The Ringer
DOGE and the Backlash to the Backlash
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
The Toxic Male Is Ready for His Close-up
Matthew Schmitz The New York Times
Escaping the Panopticon
ARX-Han The Metropolitan Review
The Everyday Avant-garde
Carl Sandbatch IM—1776
El Car Wash
Dave Barry Dave Barry’s Substack
Paranormal Phenomena
Multiple authors Tao Lin's Substack
Permanent Decline
Leif Weatherby The Point
Classical Music as Art—and Play
Thomas Philbrick Modern Age
Is This What Cancel Culture Achieved?
Thomas Chatterton Williams The Atlantic
The Sexual Renaissance
Spencer Klavan Fairer Disputations
Founders, Leave Delaware (While You Still Can)
Mark Pincus Pirate Wires
In Praise of Moving Weight
Laura van den Berg Fight Week


Thursday, February 13
A Western About Cowboys, Indians … and Mormons
Auguste Meyrat RealClearBooks
‘Severance’ Gets the Internet
Riley McAtee The Ringer
From Mishima to Mangione
Valerie Stivers Compact
Against All Odds
Jack Sullivan Air Mail
Body Positivity’s Big Fat Lie
Evie Solheim The American Conservative
Why Voice Notes Are a Small Act of Love
Rainesford Stauffer Time
Decisions, Decisions
Sophia Stewart Cleveland Review of Books
Kanye Needs a Conservatorship
River Page The Free Press
Rich Feminists Are Monetizing Poor Women
Emily Jashinsky Commonplace
The Rise of Yuppiefuturism
Louis Elton UnHerd
Transmitting Western Civilization
Darrell Falconburg University Bookman
MAGA is Failing Because It's Succeeding
Christine Emba Wisdom of Crowds
Tradition and the Individual Talent
T.S. Eliot Cluny Journal
You Can’t Go Home Again
Jessi Jezewska Stevens Bookforum
The Eternal Spring of Spring Training
Brian Koss Chronicles
Reflections on Palantir
Nabeel Qureshi Pirate Wires


Friday, February 14
Out on a Limb With Jeremy Strong
Hayley Campbell GQ
The White Lotus Is as Good and Twisted as Ever
Rachel Cooke The New Statesman
The Plays About the End of the World
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
A Conversation with Novelist Andrew Lipstein
Andrew Boryga Dwell
The Erotic Case for God
Audrey Pollnow Compact
The Valentine's Day Erotic Economy
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
It’s a Strange World, Isn’t It?
Meaghan Garvey Pitchfork
How Porn Swallowed Everything
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
Summer's Gone
Vanessa Ogle The Metropolitan Review
Has Cancel Culture Been Canceled?
Gene Callahan Modern Age
How Blurbs Became a Flashpoint
Constance Grady Vox
The Education—and Anointment—of Barron Trump
Dan Adler Vanity Fair
Hidden Heroines
Celia McGee Air Mail
Forever Young
Lane Scott Chronicles
Therapists Are Still Behaving Like Activists
Sally Satel Persuasion
USAID Needs a Controlled Burn, Not a Wildfire
Anthony J. Constantini Commonplace
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Sports-Betting Addiction by Commonplace
Available this week: "A Tyranny for the Good of its Victims" by Andrew F. Puzder
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