RealClearBooks Week of July 7, 2025 Archives

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Monday, July 7
Richard Price’s Street Life
Kevin Lozano The New Yorker
‘Independence Day’ Is the Ultimate Sci-Fi Film
Michael Baumann The Ringer
Watching Another Man Drown
Kevin M. Kearney The Metropolitan Review
The Force-Feeding of AI on an Unwilling Public
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
The Dancing Queen Reigns Forever
Jan Gradvall Air Mail
The Thinker vs The Machine
Jeremy Shapiro Persuasion
We Are Living Through a Literary Golden Age
Henry Oliver The New Statesman
The Free Press Guide to Summer Reading
Staff The Free Press
Pattiann Rogers’s Poems of Spirituality in Nature
Peggy Rosenthal Slant Books
'The Bear' Offers Apologies
Phillip Maciak The New Republic
'Jurassic World Rebirth' Chases Summer Movie Nostalgia
Peter Suderman Reason
The Ancient Roots of Western Self-Criticism
Marian L. Tupy Quillette
F1 Is a Big, Stupid Hit
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Johnny Tremain and American Patriotism
David P. Deavel AMAC
Why America Needs Baseball
Brian Koss Chronicles


Tuesday, July 8
Elmore Leonard’s Perfect Pitch
Anthony Lane The New Yorker
Can David Corenswet Save Superman?
Frazier Tharpe GQ
The Conservative Case Against the Nuclear Family
Stephen G. Adubato First Things
Wineberry July
Farahn Morgan Long Road Home
Ghost in the TV Machine
Brian Phillips The Ringer
Radical Honesty Has Come for the Boob Job
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
Against Self-Optimization
David Zahl Plough
The War on Cliché
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
The Psychological War on Women
Pamela Paresky Habits of a Free Mind
Inside the ‘Anti-Woke’ Literary Scene Growing in L.A.
John McDermott Rolling Stone
Rafael Nadal’s Farewell to Paris—and Tennis
Sebastián Fest Vanity Fair
How DEI Bureaucrats Control University Hiring
John D. Sailer City Journal
James Burnham’s Realist Conservatism
Matthew Continetti Law & Liberty
Will Nvidia Eat the world?
Tom Ough UnHerd


Wednesday, July 9
Is Technology Really Ruining Teens’ Lives?
Molly Fischer The New Yorker
‘The High Republic’ Can Shape the Future of ‘Star Wars’
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
Lena Dunham Rises Again
Ellise Shafer Variety
Tom Wolfe’s Sociology of the Weird
Nick Burns The Nation
Revolution Man
Alexander Sorondo The Metropolitan Review
Welcome to the Everything Race
Pablo Peniche Arena Magazine
The First Blockbuster
Titus Techera Fusion
The Novel Endures: A Conversation with Ross Barkan
Philip Graham 3 Quarks Daily
New TV Novels
Lisa Borst n+1
He’s Not the Milkman. He’s the Milk Guy.
Julia Shanker Grub Street
The Cognitive Divide
Anastasia Berg & Hollis Robbins The Point’s Substack
The Millions’ Great Summer 2025 Book Preview
Editor The Millions
The French Liar
Sandrine Parageau Aeon
A Priest’s Tale Made for the Movies
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
Going Big with James Piereson
RCP Video RealClearPolitics
After Harvard
GianCarlo Canaparo The Daily Economy


Thursday, July 10
A Real College Student’s Take on Murray’s ‘Real Education’
Anna Blubaugh & Thomas Lindsay RCBooks
Superman Is the Hero Every Era Needs
Daniel Chin The Ringer
Promethean Ambitions
Sanjana Friedman City Journal
Inside the Media’s Traffic Apocalypse
Charlotte Klein NYMag
Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui?
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
‘Superman’ Feels Like a Living, Breathing Comic Book
David Fear Rolling Stone
The Language of Stones
André Breton The Paris Review
What ‘Love Island’ Gets Right About Dating
Sascha Seinfeld The Free Press
The Silent Scream of Lonely Young Men
Daniel Martin The Metropolitan Review
If You Go See Jurassic World Rebirth, That’s on You
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Tom Smith on Spend Your Days Like Dollars
RCP Video RealClearPolitics
Hollywood’s Inability To Create Masculine Stars
Mark Hemingway The Federalist
My Time As A Night Watchman
Kit Noussis The Republic of Letters
The Architecture of Arrogance
Theodore Dalrymple Law & Liberty
The Census Fight That Could Reshape U.S. Politics
Maggie Miller RCInvestigations
Homestand
Kevin Kernan Ballnine


Friday, July 11
The WNBA Failed to Grasp the Caitlin Clark Revolution
Tom Kludt Vanity Fair
The Simplistic Moral Lessons of “Superman”
Richard Brody The New Yorker
"Children of Men" Could Have Been Better
David Polansky Wisdom of Crowds
What I Learned From My New AI Friend
Anne Kadet Persuasion
Behold, James Gunn Brings You the Superman!
Michael Tedder The Ringer
Linda Yaccarino’s X-It
Alex Weprin The Hollywood Reporter
Intersectionality Cuts Both Ways
Laoise de Brún Compact
Moving Mountains
Melissa Arnot Reid Air Mail
Larry David Sets HBO Return
Joe Otterson Variety
The 5 Best Stand-Up Comedy Specials of 2025 (So Far)
Abigail Covington Esquire
Courting Utopia
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
Why AI’s Siren Song Is So Hard To Resist
J. Peder Zane RealClearPolitics
On (Middle-Class) Frugality
Sierra Bellows The American Scholar
When Novels Mattered
David Brooks New York Times
Don’t Break Up the NFL’s Sunday Ticket Package
Brian Albrecht City Journal
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Can the Billionaire Reboot the Right? by City Journal
Available this week: "Nightswimming" by Melanie Anagnos
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