RealClearBooks Week of February 24, 2025 Archives

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Monday, February 24
How the ‘Manosphere’ Became Mainstream Entertainment
Willy Staley NYTimes
The MJ Lenderman Story You Haven't Heard
Grayson Haver Currin GQ
Man of the West
Lafayette Lee IM—1776
Why Politics Kills Comedy
David Polansky The Critic
Interstellar Ineptitude
Adam Pearson The Metropolitan Review
The Millennial virtue economy is dead
Matthew Gasda UnHerd
Welcome to the Bizarro Awokening
Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack
David Rieff Foretells the Fate of Woke
Lee Siegel The New Statesman
Miranda July's Lucrative Fantasies
Freddie deBoer Substack
The New Control Society
Jon Askonas The New Atlantis
Against High Brodernism
Federico Perelmuter Los Angeles Review of Books
Lorne’s Prime Time
Alexander Larman Washington Free Beacon
American Renaissance Man
Alec Dent The Dispatch
The Curious Case of Curzio Malaparte
Paul Berman Air Mail
Roll Over Shakespeare: ChatGPT Is Here
Steven Levy Wired
Dylan’s Newport Performance Was a Great Political Drama
Mike Marqusee Jacobin
Making the Arts Great Again
Paul du Quenoy Chronicles
Charles de Gaulle’s Legacy Offers Timely Lessons
Adam Kirsch City Journal


Tuesday, February 25
Texas’s Barbecue Schism
Rachel Monroe The New Yorker
The Loneliness of the Conservative Pronatalist
Marc Novicoff The Atlantic
The Banty, Blustering Genius of Earl Weaver
Dwight Garner New York Times
Mike White’s Magnum Lotus
Ed Power Air Mail
Vampire Weekend
Maya Vinokour The Nation
Unpleasant Gore-ography
Adam Nayman The Ringer
Would You Rather Have Married Young?
Lillian Fishman The Metropolitan Review
The Singular Charm of Parker Posey
Amanda Hess New York Times Magazine
Don’t Call It a Comeback
Sanjena Sathian Vulture
The Importance of Writing in a Free Society
Liza Libes Alata Magazine
The Most English Man in the World
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Andrea Dworkin Was Right About Men
Poppy Sowerby UnHerd
The Argument for Birthright Citizenship Is Not a Slam Dunk
Paul D. Thacker RCI
George Orwell’s Doublethink
Anna Funder LitHub
The Eastman Dilemma: John Eastman vs. the Left
Ian Smith The American Thinker


Wednesday, February 26
The Power of American Originals
Jay Larson RealClearBooks
It’s Showtime for the Luka Lakers
Kirk Goldsberry The Ringer
Michel Houellebecq Explains Himself
Jason Rogers Cleveland Review of Books
A Rare Interview With Bladee
Meaghan Garvey Pitchfork
The Vice President Has an X Habit
Philip Wegmann RealClearPoltiics
Psychedelics Go Mainstream, Kind Of
Jules Evans Persuasion
When You Ain't Got Nothing
Elroy Rosenberg The Metropolitan Review
The Novelist of Apocalypse
Hari Kunzru The Yale Review
Secrets Of A Book Publisher
Chelsea Hodson Language Arts
The Painter Novel
Gideon Leek Los Angeles Review of Books
The New Aesthetics of Slop
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Goodbye to Baseball’s Most Anachronistic Rule
Steve Rushin The Atlantic
Moby-Dick Is a Novel That Is Mostly About Whales
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
Parker Posey Is Poised to Finally Have Moment
David Mack Slate
The Internet Will Never Be Kid-Friendly
Meg Leta Jones Commonplace
Can Economics Explain America’s Gun Violence?
Joakim Book Daily Economy
Labor Unions, Roman History, and Community
Nadya Williams Providence
Michael Dirda Is Incredibly Fortunate
John Tamny RealClearMarkets


Thursday, February 27
The Poet of the New Gothic
Sam Jennings The Metropolitan Review
The Godfather of the Maga Right
Freddie Hayward The New Statesman
The Horror, the Humor
Marla Braverman Modern Age
Urban Anarchy
Sanjana Friedman City Journal
Welcome to the Paige Bueckers
Leah Faye Cooper GQ
Inside the S.N.L. Audition Room
Susan Morrison Air Mail
Fantasy, Technology & Belief
Ross Douthat & Luke Burgis & Jordan Castro Cluny Journal
The Best Hate-Watch of All Time
Jason P. Frank Vulture
On Julia Kornberg’s 'Berlin Atomized'
Valerie Stivers The Rumpus
Let Us Now Praise the Supermen
Santiago Ramos Wisdom of Crowds
Ronald Johnson’s American Romanticism
David B. Hobbs The Nation
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It
Charles C. Mann The Free Press
The Art of Éric Rohmer
Jaspreet Singh Boparai Engelsberg Ideas
Young Man, There’s No Need to Feel Down
David M. Drucker The Dispatch
A Bonkers Artist Heart
R. M. N. Landry Southwest Review
The Next Step for School Choice: Get It Right
John G. Grove Civitas Institute
Portrait of a Digital Propagandist
Ashley Rindsberg Pirate Wires


Friday, February 28
The Eight Biggest Story Lines Heading Into the Oscars
Keith Phipps The Ringer
Michael Lewis on the Magic of One-Hit Wonders
Michael Lewis The New Yorker
God, Liberty & Epicurus
Michael Lucchese Athwart
Who Killed the Oscars?
Sasha Stone Tablet
Between a W.P.A. Project and the Great American Novel
Ash Carter Substack
Why Are We So Obsessed With Blue?
Amanda Fortini New York Times Magazine
What Was 'A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius?'
Dan Kois Slate
Shame, Sex, and the Female Body
Susan Bordo The Metropolitan Review
Failure to Launch
James McConnachie Air Mail
Grad School Is in Trouble
Ian Bogost The Atlantic
William F. Buckley, Jr. and the Politics of Reality
Michael Lind Commonplace
Pamela Anderson Is a Bad Victim
Sarah Ditum UnHerd
Can I Boom Boom?
Emilia Petrarca The Cut
San Francisco, Beautiful Lie
Nick Burns Passages
Shut Up and Pay Me
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
Philip Gefter's 'Cocktails with George and Martha'
John Tamny RCMarkets
California's Other Dodgers
Ana Kasparian RealClearInvestigations
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Averting White House Crises by Commonplace
Available this week: "A Tyranny for the Good of its Victims" by Andrew F. Puzder
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