RealClearBooks Week of April 7, 2025 Archives

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Monday, April 7
Rang Tang Ding Dong Rankie Sankie
Charles Farrell RealClearBooks
Can Cowboy Fever Make Bull Riding the Next UFC?
Anika Jade Levy GQ
The Limits of Queer Anti-Colonialism
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
The Epic Grandeur of Vanity Fair
Charles F. McElwee City Journal
The Dangers of “Sensitivity Reading”
Frederick Attenborough Café Américain
Self-Driving Vehicles and a Way of Life
Farahn Morgan Washington Examiner
On Roy Campbell
Tamara Nicholl-Smith Athwart
Childhood Is Over
Jonah Allon The Metropolitan Review
On Haley Mlotek’s 'No Fault'
Madeleine Crum The Brooklyn Rail
One Hundred Years of Gatsby
Nathan King Air Mail
'Snow White' Was the Best Gift Hollywood Could Give Us
Rich Cromwell Federalist
Internet Overexposure Syndrome
Katherine Dee Comment
On ‘Severance’ Season Two
Michael M. Rosen & Danya Rosen Washington Free Beacon
Baseball and Belonging in One Small Town
David M. Shribman Wall Street Journal
Teach Pluralism, Not Antiracism
Eboo Patel Persuasion
The Prehistoric Psychopath
John Halstead & Phil Thomson Works in Progress
Fear and Gloating at the New York Rodeo
Max Ornstein Cleveland Review of Books
Was Jackie Robinson a DEI Hire?
Isaac Willour The Daily Economy
Repudiating Genesis
Juliana Geran Pilon Civitas Institute
The Art of Doing Nothing
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
Hallowed Be Thy App
Madeleine Kearns The Free Press


Tuesday, April 8
The Launch of the Torpedo Bat
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Gretzky and Ovechkin Did It Differently, and Also the Same
Ben Lindbergh Ringer
Michael Mann on 'Thief'
Bilge Ebiri Vulture
Canons Win Culture Wars
Daniel McCarthy Modern Age
Motherhood Can’t Be Maximized
Beatrice Scudeler The Dispatch
Herald of Modernism
Brian Patrick Eha City Journal
Criticism as Apologetics
Grace Byron Los Angeles Review of Books
Are the 80s Back?
Daisy Alioto Dirt
Frontier Fiction at Its Best
Daniel Cowper University Bookman
America the Beautiful
John Pistelli The Metropolitan Review
Rising Up and Rising Down (Vol. I) by William T. Vollmann
Ken Baumann Zona Motel
C. S. Lewis and Progressive Pathology
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
The Promise of Video Games
Pawel Kaczmarski Damage
Ways Out of California's Forest of Problems (Part 2 of 2)
Joel Kotkin RCI
Main Street Ahead of Wall Street
Batya Ungar-Sargon Commonplace
The Smithsonian Is Even Worse Than You Think
Mary Grabar Chronicles
A New Translation Breaths Fresh Life Into Charles Baudelaire
Gus Mitchell Jacobin
The Return of the Dire Wolf
Jeffrey Kluger Time


Wednesday, April 9
Florida Gators: NCAA 2025 National Champs
Dr. Herbert Wertheim RealClearBooks
Bluesky’s Quest to Build Nontoxic Social Media
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
Why Aren’t You Listening to Jon Pardi?
Alan Light Esquire
The People Who Fall in Love With Chatbots
Katherine Dee Pirate Wires
Embodiment as Enigma
Mala Chatterjee Cleveland Review of Books
On My Grandfather’s Novel
Eleanor Lanahan LitHub
Russian Machine Never Breaks
Katie Baker The Ringer
The End of Prestige
Ross Barkan Political Currents
'White Lotus' and the Pain of Desire
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
The Literary Man Isn’t Dead
Matthew Sini UnHerd
Contra Sartre: Proust and Other People
Brian Patrick Eha Socrates on the Beach
Splitting Our Sides
Stephen Macone The American Scholar
'Twin Peaks' Turns 35
Mike Hogan Vanity Fair
A Man About Town
Vivian Gornick The Nation
Paul Ricoeur and the Crisis of Atheism
David Moulton Compact
"Brat Summer" Was a Million Dollar Astroturfing Campaign
Maggie Miller RCI


Thursday, April 10
Can A.I. Writing Be More Than a Gimmick?
Anna Wiener The New Yorker
Aimee Lou Wood Checks Out of The White Lotus
Olivia Ovenden GQ
Meet Usha Vance: MAGA’s Enigmatic Second Lady
Peter Savodnik The Free Press
Up Close With the Beauty of Gatsby
Emma Heath The Metropolitan Review
Run, Algo, Run
Greta Rainbow Dirt
Living in Gatsby’s World
Jordan Castro UnHerd
Sigrid Nunez on and off the Big Screen
Sarah Chihaya The Nation
Why I Won’t Quit BookTok
Leila Herrmann Vogue
Reservation Politics
Sarah McEachern Los Angeles Review of Books
Does Testosterone Make Men?
Cordelia Fine & Carole Hooven Aeon
Picture Perfect
Andrew White Quillette
Van Gogh’s Loneliness
Laura Sheahen The New Criterion
How Gatsby Deceived America
Lee Siegel The New Statesman
Hollywood’s Jester
Emma Brockes Air Mail


Friday, April 11
A Tale of Two Cinematic Universes
Richard Brody The New Yorker
Bluesky Can’t Take a Joke
Ashwin Rodrigues Wired
The Man Without a Past
George Monaghan The Metropolitan Review
The Ghostwriter
Sheluyang Peng Tablet
The Invisible College of the Future
John Pistelli The Republic of Letters
Can Jonathan Majors Come Back?
Mary Harris Slate
Robert Caro’s Abandoned Novel
Chris Heath Smithsonian Mag
The Met’s “Big Bet” on Contemporary Opera Is a Loser
Paul de Quenoy City Journal
Why National Parks Matter
Antonio De Loera-Brust Compact
Doing Nothing Is Everything
Costica Bradatan The American Scholar
Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Epic
Edna Bonhomme The Nation
The Grace of Wayne Gretzky
Spencer Neale The American Conservative
Catharsis and Contradiction in Luka’s Return to Dallas
Rob Mahoney The Ringer
Paying a Heavy Cost for Going After a Tax Cheat
Nancy Rommelmann RCI
Trade Deals in the Time of Tariffs
Oren Cass Commonplace
Monday, April 14
The Face of the Devastated Sports Fan
Hanif Abdurraqib The New Yorker
‘Black Mirror’ Is a Series at War With Itself
Jake Kleinman The Ringer
How Universities Can Save Themselves
Nils Gilman Persuasion
Gatsby's America
Alexander Raubo IM—1776
Beware San Fran’s Rationalist Cult
Matthew Gasda UnHerd
The Muscular Humanities
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Is the Dire Wolf Truly Back from the Dead?
Johanna Berkman The Free Press
Amusing Ourselves to Debt
August Lamm Cluny Journal
Looking for Purpose in Thailand
Luis Parrales The Dispatch
Private Predicaments and Natural Disasters
Thomas Beller Air Mail
The Surprising History of the Ideology of Choice
Andrew Lanham The New Republic
Bill Gates Version 1.0
Ian Haworth Washington Free Beacon
Fighting the Ideological Lie
Daniel J. Mahoney The American Mind
But Is It Really a Dire Wolf?
Blake Dodge Pirate Wires
The Man Behind the Man Who Broke MLB's Color Barrier
Lee Habeeb Newsweek
A Full and Empty World
Auguste Meyrat The Catholic Thing
Peter Baker & Susan Glasser's Excellent 'Kremlin Rising'
John Tamny RCMarkets
Did Douglas Murray Break Joe Rogan?
Cockburn Spectator World
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Houston Schools' Turnaround by City Journal
Available this week: "The Legend of Mitch 'Blood' Green" by Charles Farrell
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