RealClearBooks Week of June 9, 2025 Archives

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Monday, June 9
Muppet Mentorship
Mike Kerrigan RealClearBooks
Taylor Swift’s Master Plan
Tyler Foggatt The New Yorker
The God that Glitched
Matthew Gasda Wisdom of Crowds
Are We in San Francisco?
Sanjana Friedman City Journal
To a New Shining Hill
Ross Barkan Political Currents
The Heart of the Emerald Triangle
Valen Lambert Dispatch
When Owning a House Is a Fantasy
Meghan Daum The Free Press
Rebirth Dearth
Spencer A. Klavan Fairer Disputations
The Enemy Is a Bowl of Soup: On Quino’s 'Mafalda'
Julia Kornberg The Paris Review
Iggy Pop: The Last Emperor of Rock
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon
A Flight From Slow, Sad Reality
Adam Pearson The Metropolitan Review
Sharing a Bed With Edmund White
Orlando Reade The New Statesman
The Fatal Flaws of the Futureless Left
Dustin Guastella Jacobin
Wave to the Camera
Grant Sharples Los Angeles Review of Books
Is This a New Golden Age of Dad Rock?
Nick Catucci GQ
Parker Posey & Lisa Kudrow
Daniel D'Addario Variety
Right Wing Civil War
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
The Best Books of Summer 2025
Ryan D'Agostino Esquire
Dark Horses
Katie Bo Lillis Air Mail
Poets on Translation: Otherwise the Same
Geoffrey Brock Poetry Foundation
Academic Freedom is Still a Superstition
Nicholas Mosvick Fusion
Crise en Abyme
Colin Vanderburg n+1
'Ballerina' Deserves an Oscar Nod for Stunts
Angela Watercutter Wired


Tuesday, June 10
The Finest Five Hours of Carlos Alcaraz’s Career
Anthony Dabbundo The Ringer
Addison Rae Went from TikTok to the Pop Charts
Amanda Petrusich New Yorker
Atonement in Hollywood and the Old West
Gage Klipper Law & Liberty
How to Read and Why
James Marriott Cultural Capital
American Renaissance: Penn Station Reborn?
Paul Zepeda Civitas Institute
The Thinking Machine
Robbie Herbst The Metropolitan Review
The Revenge of the Young Male Novelist
George Monaghan The New Statesman
On Addison Rae
Meaghan Garvey Pitchfork
Surveillance Therapy
Alessandra Bocchi Alata Magazine
I Can Read You Like A Book: On Northanger Abbey
B.D. McClay The Paris Review
My Big Fat New York City Novel
Chris Jesu Lee Salieri Redemption
Sly Stone, Funk-Rock Pioneer, Dies at 82
Chris Morris Variety
Spiritual Battle Between Communism & Capitalism
Paul McDonnold Daily Economy
Buckley’s Life on the Firing Line
James Piereson Washington Free Beacon
Is Jordan Peterson Just Making It Up as He Goes?
Luke Savage The Walrus


Wednesday, June 11
The Soft Bigotry of Affirmative Action
Jason L. Riley RealClearBooks
Miley Cyrus Finally Makes an Album Worthy of Her Voice
Rachel Syme New Yorker
An Experience for Me
Alexandra Tanner The Point
The Long Afterlife of a Literary Classic
Lola Salem The Critic
Welcome to the Era of AI Doping
Ryan Zickgraf Compact
PARK SLOPE, BROOKLYN (2017) “Café Life”
Blake Nelson Travels to Distant Cities
The Influencer Pop Star Era Has Arrived
Julianna Ress The Ringer
Ingredients for Brilliance
Julia F Christensen Aeon
Highbrow Literature Has Acquired a Fandom
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
The Hero With a Thousand Pages
Daniel McCarthy The American Conservative
The Rise and Fall of Sly Stone
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
America’s Philosophical Civil War
Mary Harrington UnHerd
Who’s Afraid of the Anti-God?
Robert Nicholson Providence
The Norwegian Chesterton
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
The Myth of Victimization
Mark Pulliam Law & Liberty


Thursday, June 12
The Forgotten Inventor of the Sitcom
Emily Nussbaum The New Yorker
What Makes Europe Better than America?
Chris Arnade The Free Press
The Grammar of Enchantment
Jeremy Larson Front Porch Republic
Ana de Armas Is a Battle-Weary Ballerina
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Brian Wilson, Pop Auteur and Beach Boys Leader, Dies at 82
Ben Sisario NYTimes
Writers, Abandon Literary Prizes
Sam Kahn Persuasion
Waiting for Britney Inside the Playboy Mansion
Jeff Weiss The Ringer
We Are All Mrs Dalloway Now
George Monaghan The New Statesman
The Political Journey of Thomas Mann
Ed Simon The Hedgehog Review
Band of Brothers
John Robb Air Mail
Gone to Seed
Jaya Saxena Eater
The Social Pornography Complex
Denise S. Robbins The Metropolitan Review
The Rule of Law: A Visit to Immigration Court
James Varney RealClearInvestigations
The Tanenhaus Variations
Steven F. Hayward Civitas Outlook
Revisiting Tulathimutte's "The Feminist"
Blake Nelson The Republic of Letters
Season’s End in Palm Beach
Paul du Quenoy The New Criterion
An interview with Christina Bambrick
Elliott Drago Jack Miller Center
America’s New Favorite Song Is by Its New No. 1 Wife Guy
Chris Molanphy Slate


Friday, June 13
Stop All the Clocks
Noah Kumin RealClearBooks
Tyrese Haliburton Takes Control of the Finals
Howard Beck The Ringer
English Literature’s Last Stand
James Marriott The New Statesman
How I’m Fixing My Broken Attention Span
Rebecca Jennings Vulture
The Real Jay Gatsby
Simon de Bruxelles Air Mail
Turbo America
Sam Venis The Point
Free Mexico!
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
Brawl for All
Sean Nam The Baffler
An Interview with John Pistelli
Theodore Anderson Newcity Lit
We’re Not Ready for the AI Power Surge
Emmet Penney The Free Press
Reimagining 'The Great Gatsby' as a Black American Story
Kyra Davis Lurie LitHub
No Gay Rights Without Free Expression
James Kirchick FIRE
A Final Reckoning on AI?
Peter Keepman Modern Age
Soccer Solidarity
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins Commonweal
Moral Failure and Government Intrusion at Harvard
Michael B. Poliakoff Law & Liberty
Shadi Hamid's 'The Problem of Democracy'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Architect of a Movement by Commonplace
Available this week: "Stop All the Clocks" by Noah Kumin
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