RealClearBooks Week of August 4, 2025 Archives

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Monday, August 4
What Is Lost in Luka Dončić’s Glow-Up
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
A Comedy Full of Jokes. What a Concept!
Adam Nayman The Ringer
Truth, Justice, and the Cynical Way
Gage Klipper Law & Liberty
Let the Loss Become Fuel
Laura van den Berg Fight Week
Sydney Sweeney and the Triumph of Eugenics
Ashley Frawley Compact
Five Best: Books About Large Families
Christopher J. Scalia Wall Street Journal
My Crusade Against Air Conditioning
Stephen G. Adubato The Blaze
The Running Life
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Tales of a Cuban Television Revolutionary
Rob Long Washington Free Beacon
In Defense of Laughter
Harry Cheadle The Metropolitan Review
The Unbearable Triteness of Being Online
Fred Bauer Rounding Up
Pretend It’s a City
Pete Tosiello Tosiello Review
Memoir of a Mailman
Tyler Austin Harper The Atlantic
The First Tech Right
Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack
Bluesky Is Trapped in a Doom Loop
Ashley Rindsberg Pirate Wires
Gen Z Is Worse Than You Think
Clare Ashcraft The Republic of Letters
Galt Gets Greenlit
Keiran Southern Air Mail


Tuesday, August 5
Sterling K. Brown’s Upstanding Archetype
Vinson Cunningham The New Yorker
In Pursuit of True Speech
Adam Tomkins Law & Liberty
REVIEW: Foreclosure Gothic by Harris Lahti
Nicole Treska Zona Motel
LLMs Will be Like Ozempic for Golf
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Bless the Phone
Ross Simonini Cluny Journal
The Lost Art of Evil
Nicholas Rombes The Metropolitan Review
Coldplaygate and the Case for Public Judgment
Justin Murphy First Things
Disney and NASA Keep Selling Space Travel
Rowena Squires Jacobin
‘King of the Hill’ Was Always a Food Show, Dang It
Amy McCarthy Eater
We Need a Sexual Nonproliferation Pact
Gage Klipper Chronicles
The Story of America
Kyle Paoletta The Nation
12 Questions for Tao Lin
Gordon Glasgow Substack


Wednesday, August 6
Watching the “King of the Hill” Revival from Texas
Rachel Monroe The New Yorker
Superheroes Have Gotten Superfluously Swole
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
The Sad Young Literary Man Is Alive and Well on Substack
Constance Grady Vox
The Closing of the Zoomer Mind
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
The Sydney Sweeney Vibe Shift Is Futile
Ella Dorn The New Statesman
The New Rules Of Travel Writing
Blake Nelson The Republic of Letters
My College Diary
Tao Lin The Paris Review
When the Drugs Stopped Working
Jessica Baldanza Mars Review of Books
James Baldwin’s Love Stories
Nicholas Boggs Vogue
Beyond Markets
Quinn Slobodian & James Duesterberg The Point
Ocean Vuong’s Way Out
Steve Early Jacobin
Why Benjamin Percy Is Writing a Novel as a Newspaper
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
Rereading Frank Stanford in the Light of Truth
Elijah Burrell Southwest Review
What Does a Journalist of the Woke Era Think Now?
Christopher F. Rufo City Journal
Love in the Time of Reality TV
Sarah Ditum Air Mail
American Power
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
Robert Frost’s “Desert Places”
Peggy Rosenthal Slant Books
All-Nighter with Rock ’n’ Roll’s Most Legendary Photographer
John Mayer Esquire


Thursday, August 7
The Banal Provocation of Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans
Doreen St. Félix The New Yorker
What’s Your Plan, Jenna Ortega?
Julianna Ress The Ringer
Contemporary Fiction and Men Who Talk Too Much
Reinaldo Laddaga Compact
Howard Stern Cancelled Himself
Ben Sixsmith The Critic
Panamerica Rides Hard for American Storytelling
Brett Puryear Pedal Steel
“Major Arcana” and Fictional Comic Book History
Tobias Carroll Zona Motel
The Cult of Carrotmaxxing
Oliver Bateman Pirate Wires
The Graham Greene Gambit
Joel Cuthbertson The Metropolitan Review
Our future is AI serfdom
B. Duncan Moench UnHerd
How the Elite Changed Its Mind on Christianity
Emma Camp Reason
The Semiotics of Girlblogging
Tess Pollok Los Angeles Review of Books
Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal Her Literary Ethos
Kathryn Sutherland LitHub
Can Our Screens Be Redeemed?
Jillian Parks Modern Age
‘Alien: Earth’ Review
Brandon Yu The Wrap
The ‘Free Speech Recession’ Is Not Over
Julian Adorney The Daily Economy
DEI Henchmen Continue to Threaten Florida’s Freedoms
Paul du Quenoy Chronicles


Friday, August 8
On Meeting Strangers
Ani Chkhikvadze RealClearBooks
Why Boomers Are All In on AI Slop
Josiah Gogarty GQ
Novels Were Always for Girls
Mary Harrington UnHerd
Joyce Solved the Autofiction 'Problem'
Patrick Cavanaugh Koroly Republic of Letters
Gen Z Has Too Much Freedom
Clare Ashcraft Persuasion
The Cold and Forbidding Worlds of Cynthia Ozick
Hannah Gold The Nation
Sydney Sweeney Is Good for America
Jesse Arm City Journal
Women in Translation Month Recommendations
Danielle Bukowski Substack
An Immoral Endeavor
Margarita Diaz Cleveland Review of Books
Maybe Our Railroads Need Some Robber Barons
Aaron M. Renn Commonplace
Can Indigenous Chileans Ever Return to their Land?
Caroline Tracey New Republic
The Revolution Will Be TikTokked
George Monaghan The New Statesman
The New ChatGPT Resets the AI Race
Matteo Wong The Atlantic
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Compact Conversations by Compact
Available this week: "Nightswimming" by Melanie Anagnos
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