RealClearBooks Week of July 28, 2025 Archives

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Monday, July 28
The History of Hulkamania
Oliver Bateman & Ian Douglass The Ringer
The Case for Lunch
Lauren Collins The New Yorker
The Wandering Fascist
Tobias Carroll The Metropolitan Review
The Death of an American Icon
Ben Sixsmith The Critic
The Fall of Colbert and the New Subversives
Ross Barkan Political Currents
What is Libertarian Feminism?
Elizabeth Nolan Brown The Freeman
Why Are Quiet Spaces Disappearing?
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
In Praise of Code-Switching
Stephen G. Adubato The Liberal Patriot
Millennial Moods
Anna Aguiar Kosicki Los Angeles Review of Books
The American Princess Problem
LuElla D’Amico The Dispatch
The View from Here
Jeff Weiss Air Mail
Hulk Hogan Climbs the Last Turnbuckle
Jack Hunter The American Conservative
REVIEW: ‘Eddington’
John Podhoretz Washington Free Beacon
America’s Kids Have Never Been Safer
Freddie deBoer Persuasion
Joe Biden’s Book Is Bound to Be Dull
Tevi Troy Wall Street Journal
Modernist Blondes
Marlowe Granados The Paris Review
A Nearly Perfect Dinner in Door County, Wisconsin
Mike Kerrigan The Blaze
A Circus of Human Misery Turned Comedy
Stephanie Danler McNally Editions


Tuesday, July 29
“South Park” Skewers a Satire-Proof President
Tyler Foggatt The New Yorker
‘Waterworld’ Deserved Better
Miles Surrey The Ringer
Why Conservatives Should Read More Fiction
Daniel Pitt The Critic
Dive Bars Will Save the West
Ani Chkhikvadze Spectator World
Tracing the Sexual Revolutions
Robert P. George National Review
Don’t Get Your Politics from 'Andor'
Joseph Holmes Law & Liberty
Light of the Right
Christopher J. Scalia Times Literary Supplement
Two Roads for the Literary Critical Elite
GD Dess The Metropolitan Review
Before Sebald Was Great
David Schurman Wallace The Nation
In Defense of Readings
Juliet Escoria Zona Motel
What Tom Lehrer Left Us
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Ten Questions for Joy Williams
Staff The Paris Review Substack
The General Theory of Enshittification
Paul Krugman Substack
Small Town Rodeo
David A. Westbrook Intermittent Signal
The Gwyneth Chronicles
Ashley Baker Air Mail
Last of Great Global Political Thrillers?
Mark Tooley Providence
Simon Kuper's "Impossible City: Paris In the 21st Century"
John Tamny RCMarkets
Who Are (or Were?) the Woke?
James Hartley The Daily Economy


Wednesday, July 30
Hail Fellow Well Met
John J. Waters RealClearBooks
Three Takeaways From ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’
Daniel Chin The Ringer
Conspiracy Theorists Aren’t Crazy
Emmett Rensin Compact
The Case For Autofiction
Derek Neal The Republic of Letters
Stephanie Wambugu’s Tale Of Two Art Friends
Greta Rainbow Bustle
The Triumph of the Lowbrow
Ryan Zickgraf UnHerd
When Scientism Meets Humanism
Graham McAleer Law & Liberty
Sick and Tired of Seeing Things as They Are
Grayson Haver Currin Southwest Review
The Boorishness of Ellen DeGeneres
Kara Kennedy Spectator World
ChatGPT-Induced Psychosis Isn't Real
Blake Dodge Pirate Wires
Is Pitching a Novel All That Different From Shark Tank?
Ben Sandman The Nation
A Real American Hero
Adam Ellwanger The American Mind
'Happy Gilmore 2' Is Extremely Unhinged
Brady Langmann Esquire
Can a Fleetwood Mac Song Bridge America’s Divide?
Mark Judge DC Examiner
'Happy Gilmore 2' Is Funny, Profoundly Stupid
Alex Kirshner Slate


Thursday, July 31
Superman Is More Than an Immigrant Tale
Imade Iyamu RealClearBooks
Let Nikola Jokic Enjoy His Side Quest
Tyler Parker The Ringer
Living a Life of Appstinence
Caroline Coffey Arc
Cruel Indifference
Tess Pollok Los Angeles Review of Books
‘Ozempic Face’ May Be Driving a Cosmetic Surgery Boom
Oscar Holland CNN
We Are Superman
Sam Jennings The Metropolitan Review
Jay Leno’s Phony Case for Balanced Comedy
Ben Schwartz The Nation
What It Takes to Crew the Hardest Race on Earth
Devin Kelly Outside
Harrison Ford Goes Deep
Angelique Jackson Variety
Women’s Basketball Needs All the Stars
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Hot Girl Wears Denim, Fourth Reich Imminent
Kat Rosenfield Pirate Wires
Why Sydney Sweeney’s Body Is Causing a Total Meltdown
Kara Kennedy Free Press
Lost Highways
Henry Begler A Good Hard Stare
Corporate Money Has Ruined Youth Sports
Jack Bedrosian Jacobin
Barry Hannah's Funny Business
Brett Puryear Pedal Steel


Friday, August 1
A Naked Attempt at Saving Comedy
Alan Siegel The Ringer
Gwyneth Paltrow Never Grew Up
Kat Rosenfield UnHerd
Johnny’s Dream
Meaghan Garvey Southwest Review
Gen Z Isn't Powerless Against Technology
Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason
Brian Eno Wants to Know If You’re Listening
Grayson Haver Currin GQ
'WWE Unreal' Has Pissed Off Wrestling Purists
Eric Francisco Esquire
How Alex Karp Defeated European Defeatism
Anna Gát Quillette
I Saw Oasis At Wembley
Steven Hyden Uproxx
The Work of Plagiarism and the Work of Selling Out
Oliver Bateman Substack
'Fantastic Four: First Steps' Is Light, Bright, and Kinda Boring
Eileen Jones Jacobin
'South Park' Has Lost the Plot
Gage Klipper Spectator World
Sebastian Castillo’s “Fresh, Green Life”
Theodore Sovinski Cleveland Review of Books
Why We Must Fight the Demise of the Essay
Nadya Williams Providence
How America Became the World’s Medicine Chest
Jonathan Miltimore Civitas Outlook
The Peculiar Persistence of the AI Denialists
Yascha Mounk Substack
Reading the New Conservatives
Richard M. Reinsch II Law & Liberty
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Last Show with Colbert by Compact
Available this week: "Nightswimming" by Melanie Anagnos
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