RealClearBooks Week of May 26, 2025 Archives

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Monday, May 26
A Secret Trove of Rare Guitars Heads to the Met
Nick Paumgarten The New Yorker
AI Is Not a Teacher, Let Alone a Friend
Rebecca Richards Law & Liberty
On Reviving the Memorial Day Parade
John J. Waters RealClearPolitics
Domesticating Wagner
Rose Lyddon The Critic
Woolfish Perception
Henry Oliver Liberties
Endless Sunday
Santiago Ramos The Lamp Magazine
Death and Life of Great Keith McNally Restaurants
Charles F. McElwee City Journal
In Living Technicolor
Jenna Stocker A Pilgrim’s Progress
Goodbye Oakland A’s. Hello Oakland Ballers.
Leighton Woodhouse The Free Press
How to Build a Culture
Fisher Derderian The Dispatch
The Matter of Martin
Lora Kelley The Paris Review
Are Institutions Cool? Kindof!
Freddie deBoer Substack
Nicole Kidman Is On a High
Danielle Pergament Allure
“Come and Meet this Incredible Tree”
George Monaghan The New Statesman
The View from Here
Tara Isabella Burton Air Mail
Marking Memorial Day with Movies
Jack Fowler Philanthropy Daily
Mrs. Dalloway’s War Wounds
Lizzie Hibbert Engelsberg Ideas
An Ancient Warrior Might Elevate Our Democracy
Reid Comstock Civitas Institute
Cannes 2025: Out of Breath
Beatrice Loayza Film Comment


Tuesday, May 27
Patti LuPone Is Done with Broadway
Michael Schulman The New Yorker
Tommy Paul Is Helping Lead American Tennis Back to Glory
Nick Remsen GQ
The Rage of the Literary Man
Alex Perez Musings From the 305
The Fall of Jordan Peterson
John Mac Ghlionn Alata Magazine
A Touch of Aristocracy
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
The Disturbing Rise of Neo-Eugenics
Poppy Sowerby UnHerd
The Argosy of Your Error
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
The Art of the Meal
Gideon Leek Liberties
American Warfare
Adam Fleming Petty The Metropolitan Review
Sister, Sister
Jessica Fletcher The Baffler
AI and the Death of Literary Criticism
Thomas P. Balazs Quillette
Nathan Fielder’s 'The Rehearsal' Takes Flight
Phillip Maciak The New Republic
Can Alex Garland & Ray Mendoza Remake the War Movie?
Beatrice Loayza Nation
A Pedagogy of the Empowered
Eboo Patel Persuasion
The Devil You Don’t Know
Darran Anderson City Journal
Holding Court
Christopher Clarey Air Mail


Wednesday, May 28
11 Observations on the WNBA Season’s First 11 Days
Seerat Sohi The Ringer
Two Paths for A.I.
Joshua Rothman The New Yorker
Scenes from the Golden State: Highway Signs
Farahn Morgan Long Road Home
The Reenchanted World
Karl Ove Knausgaard Harper's
The Spiritual Heart of 'Sinners'
Maggie Phillips Tablet
The Spirit in the Blue Light
Sheila Heti Cluny Journal
Faith Makes a Quiet Comeback
Daniel N. Gullotta Compact
On Elisa Albert’s “The Snarling Girl”
Martin Dolan Cleveland Review of Books
What Will We Do With All That Free Time?
Santiago Ramos Wisdom of Crowds
Of Course Gatekeeping Serves A Vital Role
Lincoln Michel The Republic of Letters
Humping Iron
Petra Browne The Baffler
Rightful Trespass
Piers Gelly The Point
The Ambivalence of the Asylum
Emmett Rensin The Lamp
22 Novels You Need to Read This Summer
Emily Temple LitHub
Assembly Required
James Peyser Commonplace
Lindsay Lohan Is So Back
Chloe Fineman Elle
Adam Friedland Could Be the Millennial Jon Stewart
Kieran Press-Reynolds GQ
Locked Out of the Dream
Joel Kotkin & Wendell Cox RealClearInvestigations
Before We Govern, We Kneel
Manousha Dhiwaghar Providence
The Politics of Papal Naming
Kevin Gallagher Jacobin


Thursday, May 29
Respect the Craft, Tame the Hunt
Julianna Ress The Ringer
How American Photography Came Into Its Own
Vince Aletti The New Yorker
Will Conservatives Make Great Art Again?
Pedro L. Gonzalez The Metropolitan Review
Bono Has Another Story to Tell
Madison Vain Esquire
Welcome to TV’s MAGA Era
Jason Parham Wired
The Missing Link in Higher Ed Reform
John D. Sailer City Journal
The Daily Wire’s Doomed Quest for Pop-Culture Relevance
Ben Schwartz Nation
There Is No Contemporary Fiction
Sarah Moss The New Statesman
The NEA Deserves This
Garrick Davis The American Mind
Did the Pandemic Ever End?
Kiese Laymon Los Angeles Review of Books
A Rare Breed of Listener
Sam Hockley-Smith Southwest Review
Peter Thiel’s Visions of Apocalypse
Jacob Howland UnHerd
The Data Center Dilemma
Aaron M. Renn Commonplace
How Wealth Co-opted Conservative Politics
Mark G. Brennan Chronicles
The Battle for the Marketplace of Ideas
Julian Adorney The Daily Economy


Friday, May 30
Wes Anderson’s Most Emotional Film
Richard Brody The New Yorker
Tom Cruise’s Scientologist Soul
Matt Feeney UnHerd
Mission: Highly Improbable
Dave Barry Substack
The Media’s Original Sin
Drew Holden Commonplace
Trump’s Attack on Harvard Marks New Phase in Culture War
Ross Barkan NYMag
LinkedIn Is So Embarrassing
Anna Juul The Dial
Erik Satie, the People’s Composer
Robert Barry Jacobin
Missed Connection
Drew Calvert Commonweal
Wes Anderson’s New Movie May Be His Worst Yet
Dana Stevens Slate
White Wine Is The New Black
Steven Phillips-Horst Bustle
Waiting for Britney: A Tabloid Writer Comes Clean
Elisabeth Garber-Paul Rolling Stone
The Most Powerful Room in New York?
Nate Freeman Vanity Fair
‘Lilo & Stitch’ Box Office Mayhem
Pamela McClintock The Hollywood Reporter
The Latest ‘Mission Impossible’ Missed the Vibe Shift
Gage Klipper Chronicles
Book Review: Stephen Witt's 'The Thinking Machine'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Big Beautiful Podcast by Compact
Available this week: "The Sleepers" by Matthew Gasda
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