RealClearBooks Week of April 28, 2025 Archives

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Monday, April 28
Will the Humanities Survive Artificial Intelligence?
D. Graham Burnett The New Yorker
21st-Century Cinema in Review: ‘Collateral’
Manuela Lazic & Adam Nayman The Ringer
The Lonely Way Back Home
Benjamin Braddock IM—1776
The Meaning of Ralph Lauren Nationalism
Samuel Goldman Compact
America’s Baby Boom Is Doomed
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
The Sporting Life
Miles Doyle Commonweal
Heteropessimism of the Intellect
Arielle Isack The Baffler
Tolkien Against the Grain
Gerry Canavan Dissent Magazine
Story of His Life
Charles F. McElwee City Journal
The Damned Mob of Scribbling Women
Brianna Di Monda Verso
May My Daughter Know Boredom
Nicholas Clairmont Mom Wars
The Brave New World of Book Publishing
Greg Fournier The Dispatch
The Last Renaissance Man
Mark Seal Air Mail
The Quantum Revolution and the Human Spirit
Rob Koons Civitas Institute
How Wokeness Killed Sitcoms
Auguste Meyrat The Everyman
Fiction: ‘Major Arcana’ by John Pistelli
Sam Sacks Wall Street Journal
Public Health's Sacrificial Lambs
The Ivy Exile Substack
Weird Tales for Strange Times
Pedro L. Gonzalez Contra
In Defense of the College Essay
Liza Libes Pens and Poison
The Life and Times of Hack Wilson
Jacob Bielecki Substack
Why Are Free Traders So Emotional About Trade?
Michael Lind Commonplace
How Do We Stop the Media From Talking About Itself?
Cockburn Spectator World
Definitive History on the COVID School Closings Disaster
Alex Berenson Substack


Tuesday, April 29
The Rise of Megan Moroney, Emo Cowgirl
Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker
NFL Draft Under Review
Sheil Kapadia The Ringer
One Half-Tipsy Yank with a Typewriter
Nic Rowan The American Conservative
The Group Chats That Changed America
Ben Smith Semafor
A Russian Novel Saved My Mind
Noah Kumin UnHerd
The End of Bohemia
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Did the Enlightenment Really Happen?
Kevin Schmiesing Law & Liberty
Texas’s Hottest Art Gallery Is the Buc-ee’s Bathroom
Lauren Larson Texas Monthly
America’s Middle-Class Aesthetics
Eda Hunt Café Américain
So, You Want to Write a Cookbook?
Aimee Levitt Eater
Great American Psycho
Adrian Nguyen The Metropolitan Review
Stealing ‘Abundance’
David A. Cowan Commonplace
Our Gilded Age
David Mikics Tablet


Wednesday, April 30
How “The Great Gatsby” Took Over High School
Alexander Manshel The New Yorker
Sinners’ Is a Sun-Drenched Reclamation
Lex Pryor The Ringer
The Reissue at Hand: Can Genius Be Forgotten?
August Lamm Zona Motel
The Anti-Meme
Mark Granza IM—1776
The Strange Shadow of Kafka's Parables and Paradoxes
Lincoln Michel Substack
Melania Trump Never Asked for This
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Project Ludicrous
Francis Northwood The Baffler
The Way to a Poem
Sam Gee The Point
Religion and Empire, Inseparable
Dominic Green Modern Age
The Devils Wore Prada
Chris Jesu Lee Salieri Redemption
Hawthorne or the Transcendentalists?
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
Why We Don’t Need One Billion Americans
Aaron M. Renn Commonplace
'Between the Lines' Is a Prescient Homage to Print Media
Soham Gadre Jacobin
The Second Birth of JMW Turner
Michael Prodger The New Statesman
Antisemitism: The Modern Forces Fueling an Ancient Scourge
David Swindle RCI
Andrea Long Chu's Problem with Authority
Sam Huber The Yale Review


Thursday, May 1
How the Internet Left 4chan Behind
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
Jordon Hudson Is in Her Reputation-Management Era
Nora Princiotti The Ringer
Bringing up Baby
Anastasia Berg The Point’s Substack
Feminists Against the Sexual Revolution
Josh Herring Acton Institute
The Unofficial Poet Laureate of Trump’s America
Peter Savodnik The Free Press
Meghan Daum Is Having A Moment
Thomas Beller The Floating Armoire
How Algorithms Killed Romance
Matthew Gasda UnHerd
Who Are the Real “Realists”?
James Diddams Law & Liberty
Because We Care
Danielle Chelosky Los Angeles Review of Books
Shedeur Sanders Didn’t Fall Down the NFL Draft Board
Mitchell S. Jackson Esquire
Y2K and the Millennial Virgil
George Dardess Slant Books
Vargas Llosa: The Man Who Broke From the Tribe
Emmanuel Rincón Daily Economy
The Profit of Politics: Stacey Abrams Leveraged Her Position
Maggie Miller RCI
Black Dandyism Through the Decades
Heven Haile & Eileen Cartter GQ


Friday, May 2
Ryan Coogler’s Road to “Sinners”
Jelani Cobb The New Yorker
King of Fools: The Oral History of Danny McBride
Alan Siegel The Ringer
The Last Colossus
Adam Kosan The Metropolitan Review
My Feral Rooster Friend
Tao Lin Substack
The Great American Novel Will Not Be Substacked
Valerie Stivers Compact
Joan Didion, Conservative It Girl
Anika Jade Levy UnHerd
On 'Sinners'
Liel Leibovitz Tablet
The Bloody Blues of 'Sinners'
Stephen Kearse The Nation
Women of F1 Academy Are Gunning for Racing’s Top Ranks
Dan Adler Vanity Fair
Men and Women Still Don't Get Each Other
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
Brave New Marvel
William Barker Quillette
Books and Baseball
John Wilson First Things
A Midsummer Night’s Stream
Wendy Smith The American Scholar
8 New Books You Should Read This May
Emma Alpern & Jasmine Vojdani Vulture
Classical in Columbus
Mark Bauerlein Modern Age
Video Game Industry Reeling From Trade Crackdown
Alex Rosado Daily Economy
Every Bunny Was Kung Fu Fighting
David Deavel Imaginative Conservative
The Return of an Odysseus
William Edgar The New Criterion
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: How the Media Lost Its Way by American Compass
Available this week: "The Persistence of the Ideological Lie" Daniel J. Mahoney
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