RealClearBooks Week of February 17, 2025 Archives

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Monday, February 17
Cobra Kai’s Xolo Maridueña Is Taking a Gap Year
Eileen Cartter GQ
A Half-Century of ‘Saturday Night’
Michael Warren The Dispatch
Studs Terkel Lives On
Ash Carter Air Mail
DOGE as Class War
Leighton Woodhouse Compact
One Man's Crusade Against Seed Oils In NYC
Kevin Chaiken Pirate Wires
American Beauty
Eda Hunt Café Américain
AI and the Future of Literature
Henry Oliver & Sam Kahn The Common Reader
Cooties and Careers
Chris Jesu Lee The Metropolitan Review
What's on Patricia Torvalds's Bedside Table?
Patricia Torvalds Mars Review of Books
Why I Hate Substack
Philip D. Bunn Everything Was Beautiful
Chaotic Permanence
Rob Henderson City Journal
What Does It Mean to Be a Man?
Martin Gurri The Free Press
Where Love Goes to Die
Benjamin Ogilvie Commonplace
A Little Night Music: On VIVIENNE and Surrealism
Emmalea Russo Arcade Publishing
Testimony from Hell
Juliana Geran Pilon New English Review
The Moral Myopia of Ta Nehisi Coates
Cory Franklin JohnKassNews.com
On Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses
Jhumpa Lahiri The Dial
The USCCB Should Reject Federal Funds
Kevin D. Roberts First Things


Tuesday, February 18
It's Always High School
Valerie Stivers RealClearBooks
The Problem With 'The White Lotus'
Sam Adams Slate
The Rise of the Woke Right
Thomas Chatterton Williams The Atlantic
Why Women Fall for Wellness Bullshit
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
Outwitting History
Arielle Isack The Point
Desperado Dadaism
Henry Begler The Metropolitan Review
Bob Dylan and Me
Win McCormack The New Republic
TikToking American Democracy to Death
Jeremy S. Adams Acton Institute
What’s The Point Of Bill Gates?
Grace Byron Defector
American Letters Will Endure the End of “BookTok”
Michael Lucchese Law & Liberty
Eimear McBride’s Literature of Desire
Megan Nolan The New Statesman
Frank Zappa: America’s Last Rebel
Daniel Kalder UnHerd
All Is Unfinished
John Banville The Nation
Michael Shannon’s Latest Role
Benjamin Hedin Vanity Fair
The Strange, Abrupt Finale of ‘Inside the NBA’
Howard Beck The Ringer
'Peanuts' in Perspective
George Case Quillette
In the Mood for Love
Elena Clavarino Air Mail


Wednesday, February 19
On the Clock
Sam Jefferies RealClearBooks
What’s So Mysterious About John Malkovich?
Gabriella Paiella GQ
Sophie Lewis’s Case Against Feminism
Valerie Stivers Compact
The Cult of the Entrepreneur
Robin Kaiser-Schatzlein The New Republic
What Was Woke Art: Elite Interiority
Jessa Crispin The Culture We Deserve
Just Stop Fixing the All-Star Game
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Every Woman’s Romantasy
Flora Joll Air Mail
Europe Has a Free Speech Problem
Jacob Mchangama Persuasion
Comedians Should Not Be Hot
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
On Robert Eggers’s “Nosferatu”
Brianna Di Monda Cleveland Review of Books
Meet the Post-Trump, Working-Class GOP
Ethan Dodd Commonplace
Tempted by the False God of Convenience
Nathan Beacom The Dispatch
Harnessing the Breath of Life
G.B. Rango Pirate Wires
Young Snipers in Love Across 'The Gorge'
Eileen Jones Jacobin
The Lana Del Rey Presidential Library For Girls & Gays
Staff Language Arts
The Medical Outlook
Anthony Daniels The New Criterion
New Life for the Great American University?
David Deavel American Habits
In the Lions’ Studio
Noah Isenberg The American Scholar


Thursday, February 20
Can Reacher’s Alan Ritchson Get Any Bigger?
Matthew Roberson GQ
A Universe in Ruins
Adam Nayman The Ringer
The Age of the Prude Is Over
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
The Painter of Thought
Jared Marcel Pollen The Point
The Future Childless Cat Guys
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
Claire Messud on What’s Distracting from Good Writing
Sean Hooks Public Books
On Gender in Contemporary Fiction
Django Ellenhorn The Metropolitan Review
The Online Right Is Building a Monster
River Page The Free Press
Reader, I Divorced Him
Hermione Hoby Bookforum
Why ‘The Brutalist’ Is Brutal to Watch
Thomas de Monchaux Tablet
Late Night's New King
Tatiana Siegel Variety
Words Fail Me
Stephen Mortland Southwest Review
The Noble Savagery of Sam Peckinpah
Christopher Sandford Modern Age
Bow Down to Doechii
Danya Issawi The Cut
The Rebel Campus Boosters Rising Up Against Wokeness
John Murawski RCI
Vance Delivers a Historic Defense of Free Speech
Jonathan Turley The Hill
Father of the Originalist Legal Revolution
William H. Pryor Jr. Civitas Institute
Trump’s School Choice Executive Order is a Start
Corey A. DeAngelis Daily Economy


Friday, February 21
Stephen A. Smith for President
Jay Caspian Kang The New Yorker
The Stones That Keep On Rolling
David Hepworth Air Mail
Down and Out in Hollywood
Justin Gautreau Los Angeles Review of Books
Perfecting the Art of Pedantry
Bailey Trela The Baffler
The Rise of the New Romanticism
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Make the Kennedy Center Honors Great Again
Peter Tonguette American Conservative
The Harrowing Ardor of Heather Lewis
Gracie Hadland The Nation
How Universities Get Away With Hiring Radicals
John D. Sailer City Journal
Language as Rebellion
Daisuke Shen Cleveland Review of Books
Things That Explanation Could Not Ruin
Becca Rothfeld Cluny Journal
How to Free the Universities
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
A Divorce Memoir With No Lessons
Rachel Vorona Cote The Atlantic
The Christian Realism of Peggy Noonan
Siobhan Heekin-Canedy Providence
The Superiority of Western Culture
Pedro Gonzalez Chronicles
Samuel Graydon's 'Einstein In Time and Space'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
How Did Law Schools Become Lawless?
Mark Pulliam Law & Liberty
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Super Bore by Compact
Available this week: "A Tyranny for the Good of its Victims" by Andrew F. Puzder
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