RealClearBooks Week of March 3, 2025 Archives

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Monday, March 3
Gene Hackman Was a Colossus
Brian Phillips The Ringer
The Hackman Connection
Alexander Larman Air Mail
Hollywood’s Obsession With AI-enabled ‘Perfection’
A.S. Hamrah Fast Company
Could I Ever Ditch Beef?
Izzie Ramirez Vox
On 'Joker: Folie à Deux' and 'Megalopolis'
Mo Diggs The Metropolitan Review
Ozempocalypse?
Devorah Goldman Public Discourse
The Winter of Civilization
Josh Cohen Aeon
On Saul Bellow’s 'Ravelstein'
Matt Dinan The Hedgehog Review
On Drake
Harmony Holiday 4Columns
Notes on Right-Wing Cancel Culture
Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack
A Delightfully Frenetic Cult Classic
Emma Sarappo The Atlantic
So Long, Gene Hackman
Spencer Neale The American Conservative
Gene Hackman’s Forgotten Classic
Charles Lane The Free Press
Toward Good Art, and Art Itself
Valerie Pavilonis The Dispatch
2 Books for Jazz Age Enthusiasts
Sadie Stein New York Times
On Mending Over Ending
The Ivy Exile Substack
Anora is a Movie about Marriage
Tara Isabella Burton Wisdom of Crowds
REVIEW: ‘The Brutalist’
John Podhoretz Washington Free Beacon


Tuesday, March 4
The Winners and Losers of the 2025 Oscars
Miles Surrey The Ringer
Bob Dylan’s Call to Freedom
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
The Last Good Place on the Internet
Clare Coffey The Dispatch
The New Woke Right Wants Its Own Safe Space
Ross Barkan New York Magazine
Architecting a Myth
Megan Gafford The Metropolitan Review
Cinematheque: Seeing and Being
Robert Rubsam Liberties Journal
Do You Want to See?
Alice Gribbin Cluny Journal
Where Hannah Arendt Began
Suzanna Murawski City Journal
Sean Baker’s American Dreams
Simran Hans The New Statesman
High Infidelity
Aaron Timms The Baffler
How Tech Created the Online Fact-Checking Industry
Lauren Wagner Pirate Wires
Timothée Chalamet and the Rise of the Try-Hards
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Schrödinger’s Trauma
Pamela Paresky Psychology Today
On Helen Garner’s Diaries
Leslie Jamison The Paris Review
The Stale Poundcake of Freedom Conservatism
Drew Holden Commonplace
Journalism Clubs, Then and Now
Peter Tonguette The American Conservative


Wednesday, March 5
A Liberal Writer Fails to Do the Work
Michael Patrick F. Smith RealClearBooks
Panda Bear’s Long Road Home
Grayson Haver Currin GQ
The Great Tech-Family Alliance
Katherine Boyle Tablet
Who’s Afraid of Tom Wolfe?
Jeannette Cooperman The Common Reader
'Anora' and the Pain and Power of Being Sexy
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
What Did #MeToo Accomplish?
Magdalene J. Taylor UnHerd
The Sex War
Alessandra Bocchi Alata Magazine
Stand Up for Better Oscar Bait!
Sam Kahn The Metropolitan Review
Just Another Liberalism?
Blake Smith The Hedgehog Review
'With Love, Meghan' Is a nightmare
Kara Kennedy Spectator World
On Ayşegül Savaş’s “The Anthropologists”
Emily Alexander Cleveland Review of Books
The Perverse Reason We Can’t Resist 'The White Lotus'
Phillip Maciak New Republic
Why Does Every Play Seem Political Now?
Mark Harris New York Times Style
COVID-Era Smearing–and Resurrection–of Jay Bhattacharya
Paul D. Thacker RCI
Power Lifting Made Me a Better Writer
RO Kwon Harper's Bazaar
I Coulda Been A Contender...
Jenna Stocker A Pilgrim’s Progress
DOGE Gets Serious
Iain Murray The Daily Economy
The Five Dogmas of DEI
Joseph Heath Persuasion
Call Her “Daddy”!
Laura Antonia Jordan Air Mail


Thursday, March 6
The Artificial Culture
Matthew Gasda RealClearBooks
The No-Drama Oscars
Adam Nayman The New Republic
Toni Morrison’s Lost Play
Elon Green Vulture
Kanye West and the Persistence of Stigma
Emmett Rensin Compact
Alex Pereira and the Mystery of Punching Power
Ryan Hockensmith ESPN
The Gender Vibe Shift and Its Discontents
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
Barbarians at the Gate
Damir Marusic Wisdom of Crowds
Trying To Save Emilia Pérez From Itself
Jessa Crispin The Metropolitan Review
Between Spirituality and Literature
Steven Knepper Front Porch Republic
Thomas Bernhard’s Splenetic Style Lives
Edward Canfield Modern Age
Tangled Up in Methylene Blue
Riley Nork Pirate Wires
What Ketamine Does to the Human Brain
Shayla Love The Atlantic
The Communist Folk Singers Who Shaped Bob Dylan
Taylor Dorrell Jacobin
In Mickey 17, Bong Joon-ho Misses the Moment
David Sexton New Statesman
Anjelica Huston’s Class Act
Emine Saner Air Mail
T.S. Eliot and the Need for Lent
Michael Lucchese Providence
The Dallas Mavericks Are Now a Full-Blown Disaster Movie
Danny Chau The Ringer
John Cena Has Turned Heel
Luke Winkie Slate


Friday, March 7
How “Severance” Makes a Fetish of the Office
Katy Waldman The New Yorker
The Unbreakable Bond Between Anime and the NBA
Alan Chazaro GQ
The New Ex-Gay
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
Beware Digital Sanctity
Jacob Phillips The Critic
A Powerless Form
Rita Felski & Jessica Zhan Mei Yu The Point
On John Banville's Split Personality
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
Control, Alt, Delete
Katie Herzog Splice Today
The Expendability of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Mickey 17’
Adam Nayman The Ringer
Modern Life Is Ruining Storytelling
Heather Parry Persuasion
Can James Bond Be Licensed to Thrill Again?
Bradley Hope Wall Street Journal
The Stabilization of Religious Decline Is a Big Deal
Emile Doak Commonplace
Who Gets to Be a Therapist?
Jess McAllen The Baffler
Stranger Years
Pedro Gonzalez Contra
The 5 Best Albums of 2025 (So Far)
Alan Light Esquire
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: A Culinary Legend Offers Food for Thought by Reason
Available this week: "A Tyranny for the Good of its Victims" by Andrew F. Puzder
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