RealClearBooks Week of March 24, 2025 Archives

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Monday, March 24
The Last Contract
Alexander Sorondo The Metropolitan Review
The Vanishing White Male Writer
Jacob Savage Compact
Play Ball!
Alex Perez Air Mail
What Was the Millennial?
Nicholas Harris The New Statesman
Living in the Future
Paul Heron Café Américain
The Perils of the Situationship
River Page The Free Press
It is Practical to Be Good
B.D. McClay Wisdom of Crowds
A Century of Flannery O’Connor
Jessica Hooten Wilson The Dispatch
Spectacles of Banality
T.M. Brown The Point
Faith in the Age of AI
Nora Kenney City Journal
My Vanity Fair Hazing
Graydon Carter New York Magazine
Disney Is Bungling its Most Treasured Property
Constance Grady Vox
The Supply Closet That Film Geeks Love
Paula Mejia The Atlantic
Bob Dylan's Southern Odyssey
Brett Puryear Puryear’s Southern Lit Jukebox
The Cholesterol Cult
Nick Jikomes Pirate Wires
It's Time for a Serious Adaptation of ‘Starship Troopers’
Pedro Gonzalez Chronicles
Our Great American Industrial Comeback
J.D. Vance Commonplace
It is Not Good to Read (Only) Alone
Nadya Williams Front Porch Republic
On Ogden Nash’s Poetry
Mike Kerrigan The Blaze
Civics Worthy of America’s 250th Birthday
Michael Weiser RealClearEducation
TCR Talks with Elizabeth Ellen
Breen Nolan The Coachella Review


Tuesday, March 25
Game Over
Matias Ahrensdorf & Derek Lux RealClearBooks
Capitalism, Baseball, Community, and Loss
Timothy P. Carney Washington Free Beacon
A Few Doubts About Neo-Romanticism
Matthew Gasda Wisdom of Crowds
The Colossus of Brooklyn
Aaron Lake Smith The Metropolitan Review
Comedy’s Most Erudite Buffoon
David Sims The Atlantic
The Kids Aren’t Alright
Ben Dowell Air Mail
When Did Men Get So Vain?
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
What It’s Like to Have a One-Game MLB Career
Kevin Baxter LA Times
The Ubiquitous Lara Trump
Kara Kennedy Spectator World
In Search of Turkish Delight
Valerie Stivers First Things
The Time George Foreman Sang Me Bob Dylan
Dave Zirin The Nation
On 'Black Bag'
Melissa Anderson 4Columns
Preparing for the Plunge
David Amsden Los Angeles Review of Books
Alec Baldwin’s Brooding Era
Peter Tonguette Washington Examiner
Graydon Carter and the ‘Golden Age of Magazines’
Mark Judge Chronicles
Reading Culture Through Catholic Eyes
Diane Scharper National Catholic Reporter
What the “Abundance Agenda” Leaves Out
Matt Bruenig Jacobin
The Novel Cover Changes and Changes
Bekah Waalkes Dirt
Greenhouse Gas Windfalls Blew Hard for Solar in the Biden EPA
James Varney RCI
The Weight of the Internet Will Shock You
Samantha Spengler Wired
The Happiest Countries in the World
Olivia Morelli & Hannah Towey Conde Nast Traveler


Wednesday, March 26
Is March Madness All Luck?
Tyler Foggatt The New Yorker
Inside Disney’s ‘Snow White’ Fiasco
Tatiana Siegel Variety
Root, Root, Root for the Home Team
Glenn C. Altschuler Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The Art Life
Joyelle McSweeney Poetry Foundation
Flannery O’Connor at 100
Sally Thomas Acton Institute
Male Repression Is Good, Actually
Mary Harrington UnHerd
The Mind in a Mustard Seed
Spencer A. Klavan Civitas Institute
Resist the Social Media Moral Panic
Joe Hackett The Critic
The Comedian Who Anticipated Our Reality-Bent World
Jonah Weiner NYTimes
The Patron Saint of Forgetting
Stephen Akey The Hedgehog Review
Inside Ben Affleck’s Plan to Remake Hollywood
Zach Baron GQ
In Katie Kitamura’s Work, Everything Is a Performance
Maggie Doherty New Republic
Happy Hundredth Birthday, Flannery O’Connor!
Jamie Quatro The Paris Review
The Best Indie Rock Albums Of The 21st Century, Ranked
Steven Hyden Uproxx
Roxane Gay on What Feminism Can Do in This Moment
Sara Franklin The Nation
Can the “E” in E-girl Stand for Ecstatic?
Leah Abrams LARB
‘Honeypot’ Sex Sting Against Trump Smells Fishy
Paul Sperry RealClearInvestigations
'The Monkey' as Sleeper Horror Hit
Eileen Jones Jacobin
How to Write a Post–Me Too Memoir
Grace Byron The Cut
Is ‘Severance’ a Critique of the Pro-Choice Movement?
Chris Decaen Daily Signal


Thursday, March 27
The Girlfriend Experience
Valerie Stivers RealClearBooks
Paul Skenes Is Ready to Be MLB’s League Leader
Hannah Keyser The Ringer
“Snow White” Remake Whistles But Doesn’t Work
Justin Chang The New Yorker
Why ‘Abundance’ Isn’t Enough
Ross Barkan Compact
‘Adolescence’ Does a Disservice to Young Men
Madeleine Kearns The Free Press
Inside Didion and Dunne’s Private Archive
David L. Ulin Alta Online
Andy Warhol’s Sacraments
Stephen G. Adubato First Things
Steven Soderbergh’s Secret Ingredient
Matt Zoller Seitz Vulture
Graydon Carter on The Golden Age of Magazines
Terry McDonell LitHub
Requeering Wilde
Sam Mills Aeon
The Emperor’s New Score
Nicholas McRoberts Quillette
Integrating Baseball Had Nothing to Do with DEI
Freddie deBoer Substack
Might of the Living Feds
Bob Ivry & Jeremy Portnoy RealClearInvestigations
Prize Inspires Students to Write Great American Novel
Gabriel Zylstra College Fix
The Mafia’s Dark Knights
Michael Sragow Air Mail


Friday, March 28
Is Baseball Without Umpires Still Even Baseball?
Adam Elder New York Magazine
Fight Club: Does Baseball Suck?
Joe Nocera & Will Rahn The Free Press
Down With the “Positive Male Role Model”
George Monaghan New Statesman
Why I’m Boycotting AI
Sam Kahn UnHerd
The Land of Fear and Awe
Emina Melonic Civitas Institute
The Town Where Journeys End
William Lambert The Metropolitan Review
Evelyn Waugh’s Decadent Redemption
Henry Oliver Liberties
Studio Ghibli AI Memes Expose Deeper Artistic Crisis
Oliver Bateman UnHerd
Innies and Outies
Mary Kate Rogers The Lamp Magazine
Feminism Against Itself
Grace Byron The Nation
In Praise of Communitarian not Corporate Baseball
Jeremy Beer Front Porch Republic
In Defense of Cultural Elites
Ross Barkan Political Currents
The Best American Poetry of the 21st Century (So Far)
Multiple authors The Atlantic
Baseball’s Wealth Gap Has Become a Chasm
Jared Diamond Wall Street Journal
Becoming Nearer to Oneself
Madeleine Wulfahrt Cleveland Review of Books
The Scope of Biden Admin Censorship Efforts
Thérèse Boudreaux Center Square
No Pain, No Gain
Nicholas Phillips Commonplace
David Hume’s Stark Warning
Barry Brownstein The Daily Economy
The Quintessentially American Story of Indian Pizza
Hannah Goldfield New Yorker
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Abundance, Left and Right by Commonplace
Available this week: "Cigar Gastronomique" by Patrick Potter
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