RealClearBooks Week of July 21, 2025 Archives

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Monday, July 21
Scottie Scheffler’s Revealing Open Championship Win
Elizabeth Nelson The Ringer
Bottoms Up for the Big Dumper
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Gary Fisketjon’s Next Act
Ash Carter Air Mail
Literature Has Completely Changed My Life
Lanre Bakare The Guardian
Name One Genius That Ain’t Crazy
Adrian Nguyen Washington Free Beacon
28 Years... After AOL
Kat Rosenfield Pirate Wires
Jane Austen’s ‘Persuasion’ Can Teach You How to Grow Up
Brandon Taylor Time
No Sympathy for the Devil
John J. Waters RealClearHistory
The Sadist Assault on the ‘Coldplay Couple’
Matthew Gasda UnHerd
The First Great Covid Movie May Also Be the Last
Geoff Shullenberger Substack
Britain’s War on Speech Comes for the Pub
Dominic Green The Free Press
Superman After Liberalism
Daniel McCarthy Modern Age
Missouri Senator Eric Schmitt Takes the Left to Court
Mark Judge Chronicles
Wandering Across America As Suttree
Judson Vail The Republic of Letters
Jennifer Love Hewitt Wasn't Sure She Wanted to Return
Rachel Handler NYMag


Tuesday, July 22
A.I. Is About to Solve Loneliness. That’s a Problem
Paul Bloom New Yorker
‘Eddington’ Captures the Chaos of the COVID Era
Adam Nayman The Ringer
A Funny Thing About Dave Barry
Andrew Ferguson The Free Press
The Literature of the Normal
Nathan Beacom The Dispatch
The Impish Modernism of Michael Clune
Adam Wilson The Nation
Eddington: No Country for Woke Men
Sohrab Ahmari UnHerd
Why Colbert Got Canceled
Nate Silver Silver Bulletin
The Incarnationals
Emma Collins The Metropolitan Review
Goodnight, Late Night
Emily Jashinsky Pirate Wires
Why Crypto Won’t Free You
Fabio Vighi Compact
“Abundance” Is Not the Answer
Christopher F. Jones Los Angeles Review of Books
A Splendor Wild and Terrifying
Mark Phillips The American Scholar
Europe’s Free Speech Erosion
Cláudia Ascensão Nunes The Daily Economy
The Attention Economy
Andrew Ferguson Commonplace
The Work of the Last Real Newspaperman
Jonathan Snowden Substack
The World Has Gone Haywire in Ari Aster’s Eddington
Corey Atad The New Republic
Eddington: Western Noir Chaos Made Boring
Eileen Jones Jacobin


Wednesday, July 23
Louisa May Alcott’s Utopian Feminist Workplace Novel
Sarah Blackwood New Yorker
That Lena Dunham Is Great at Writing Men
Kerensa Cadenas GQ
A Quest Novel for the Aimless Generation
Valerie Stivers Compact
Go Behind the Scenes of the Running of the Bulls
Tony Perrottet Smithsonian
REVIEW: Glass Century by Ross Barkan
Mesha Maren Zona Motel
The Greatness of Peter Weir
Alexander Larman Substack
Remembering Ozzy Osbourne
Valentina Colosimo Vanity Fair
The Website at the End of the Internet
John Herrman New York Magazine
Lines in the Sand
The Ivy Exile Substack
You Can Just Say Things
Santiago Ramos Wisdom of Crowds
‘Eddington’ Remembers When We All Lost Our Minds
River Page The Free Press
Can You Tell Me What Life Is?
Maya C. Popa Poetry Foundation
Stephen Colbert Fans’ Cancellation Hysteria
Daniel McCarthy NYPost
Toward a National Restoration
Daniel J. Mahoney The American Mind
The Late-Capitalist Menace at the Heart of 'Cloud'
Adam Nayman The New Republic
Goonpocalypse
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
Is This the Most Divisive Film of the Year?
Josh Rosenberg Esquire


Thursday, July 24
'Clint' Highlights the Modernity of an Old-School Man
Richard Brody The New Yorker
Colbert, Trump, and the Cost of Doing Business
Justin Charity The Ringer
Whit Stillman’s Comic Art
Mary P. Nichols Modern Age
Ozzy Osbourne in an Illinois Basement
Amanda Fortini Pennyroyal
A Million Little Failures
Annie Fell The Metropolitan Review
Goodbye, Saffron
Valerie Stivers First Things
Inspired Conflations
Paul Franz ashes and sparks
The Death of the Post-Left
Oliver Bateman Compact
Author Spotlight: Kyle Seibel
Sam Franzini Our Culture
One-Night Stands with Wild Strangers
Joselyn Takacs Los Angeles Review of Books
I Love My New Friend Ray. The Only Problem: He’s Not Real.
Anne Kadet Free Press
The 100 Best Podcasts of All Time
Staff Time
Review: The Criminals of Florida
Joshua M. Patton Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Great American Novel Conversation Is Stupid
Maxwell Robison Republic of Letters
The Mediocrity Feedback Loop
Charlotte Allen Quillette
The Seasons Start Inside You
Max Callimanopulos The Oxford Review of Books
Scapegoating the Algorithm
Dan Williams Asterisk Magazine
'Too Much' Is Just Right
Ashley Baker Air Mail


Friday, July 25
Shooter McGavin Is Forever
Alan Siegel The Ringer
There’s No Escaping Going Viral
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
Do Panic
Gideon Leek Los Angeles Review of Books
Did “Superman” Make Hollywood Normal Again?
Jack Hunter Modern Age
Looking Back on Johnny Carson’s America
Mark Judge Washington Examiner
Lena Dunham’s 'Too Much' Is Exactly Enough
Phillip Maciak The New Republic
Fools Russian
Will McDonald The Baffler
Gen Z Has Lost Its Fragility
Marilyn Simon UnHerd
On Jeff Weiss’ 'Waiting for Britney Spears'
Sam Franzini Soft Union
Gender Relations Have Made Dating a Hostile Act
Magdalene J. Taylor Substack
Tucker Carlson’s Dark Turn
James Kirchick National Review
The Most Visionary Country Album of the Year
Marissa R. Moss GQ
The Downfall of Schlitz
David Bourgeois & Michael Lander Esquire
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Matthew Walther on Conspiracy Theories by Wisdom of Crowds
Available this week: "Nightswimming" by Melanie Anagnos
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