RealClearBooks Week of August 11, 2025 Archives

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Monday, August 11
Zach Cregger’s Dulled ‘Weapons’
Adam Nayman The Ringer
A Brooklyn Renter’s Odyssey
Lora Kelley The New Yorker
Close, But No
Mary Townsend Wisdom of Crowds
In on the Joke
Alana Pockros The Point
A Pragmatic Progressive’s Lament
Ash Carter Air Mail
First impressions of Sydney
Chris Arnade Chris Arnade Walks the World
A Review of Jillian Luft’s “Scumbag Summer”
Jennifer Ostopovich Substack
A Supervillainous Simp
John Julius Reel The Republic of Letters
A Conversation with Ross Barkan
Chris Dalla Riva Can't Get Much Higher
Everyone Once in Berlin
Derek Neal The Metropolitan Review
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glamour
Charles F. McElwee City Journal
Confessions of a Zillennial Ex–Party Girl
Audrey Lee Substack
A Comedy Sequel That Actually Succeeds
Evan Spear The Dispatch
The Rage of the AI Guy
Freddie deBoer Substack


Tuesday, August 12
Hollywood’s Conservative Pivot
Inkoo Kang The New Yorker
The Adventures of Samuel Clemens
Adam Hochschild The Nation
The Rise of the Glossier Intellectual
Ella Dorn Substack
Tech and Teens
Caleb Whitmer Acton Institute
Popular Justice
Geoff Shullenberger The Point
An Interview With Tara Isabella Burton
Tara Isabella Burton The Republic of Letters
Vladimir Nabokov: Teasing Trickster
Jonathan Meades UnHerd
Strauss’s Escape from Plato’s Cave
David Lewis Schaefer Modern Age
William F. Buckley and the Conservative Future
William Voegeli City Journal
Igno-fiction
Greta Rainbow Dirt
The Secret
M. M. Owen Aeon
In Alien: Earth, the Future Is a Corporate Hellscape
Adam Morgan Wired
What Micro-Retirement Says About Gen Z
Kylie Thomas American Mind
What Is the Great American Football Novel?
Adam Fleming Petty Substack
What Families Gain at the Dinner Table
Peter Jacobsen The Daily Economy
Virtue Outsourcing & the Rise of Limousine Populism
Chris Griswold Commonplace


Wednesday, August 13
Succès de Scandale
Kazuo Robinson RealClearBooks
‘Alien: Earth’ Is About a Different Kind of Monster
Miles Surrey The Ringer
Where Is the Asian American Portnoy?
Blake Smith The Metropolitan Review
Novelists Have Forgotten Narrative
Sam Kahn Compact
You Should Still Build Your Raft of Art in the Sea of Slop
Lincoln Michel Substack
A Defense of AI Parenting
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
The Evolution of a Beloved Postcolonial Critic
Mychal Denzel Smith The New Republic
American Breakdown
Brian Stewart Commentary
Grab ‘Em by the Pants!
Daniel Boffey Air Mail
Who’s Afraid of YouTube Man?
Nicholas Harris The New Statesman
Book Review: C. Mallon, ‘Dogs’
Sam Franzini Our Culture
Ben Shelton Can Win This Year’s U.S. Open
Spencer Neale The American Conservative
How Chili’s Won Gen Z
Paula Forbes Texas Monthly
Travis Kelce on His Upcoming Seaso & Life with Taylor Swift
Sean Manning GQ
We Owe Graduates in the Age of the Great Slowdown
Samuel J. Abrams Chronicles
How America betrayed Yosemite
Rachel Dec Dispatch Media
Book Review: Salvatore Basile's 'Cool'
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Zen and the Art of Being Jennifer Aniston
Julie Miller Vanity Fair


Thursday, August 14
C.S. Lewis in the Age of Bleakness
Josh Appel RealClearBooks
The Quarter-Century Evolution of the NFL
Steven Ruiz The Ringer
A TikToker In Search of America’s Third Places
Frank Filocomo Front Porch Republic
McMansions Are the New Haunted House
Grace Byron Harper's Bazaar
The Twilight of Liberal Credentialism
Oliver Traldi UnHerd
Missed Connections
Alana Pockros The Nation
The Dog Days of Covid
Matthew Morgan The Metropolitan Review
Rise of the Silicon Valley Patriots?
Richard M. Reinsch II Civitas Institute
'Weapons' Is a Generational Warfare Tale of Terror
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Polanski’s Nation of Pain
Charles Taylor Liberties Journal
Sydney Sweeney Has Great Scenes
Tony Tost Practical Screenwriting
'Weapons' Is a New Kind of Cinema
Alexander Larman Spectator World
Bringing Human Nature Back In
Francis Fukuyama Persuasion
How Data Dominates Every Facet of Our Daily Lives
Noah Giansiracusa LitHub
Fraud Hunters: Sniffing Out Bogus Science
Vince Bielski RealClearInvestigations
F1’s Take on Men, Teams, and Triumph
Joseph Holmes Aaron Renn
The Problem With ‘The Enlightenment’
Robert Curry American Thinker
Liberalism’s Cure for the Man Crisis Makes Men Worse
Mark Judge Chronicles


Friday, August 15
Leonardo DiCaprio Unfiltered
Paul Thomas Anderson Esquire
‘Weapons’ Won’t Explain Itself
Daniel Chin The Ringer
The Front Page
Lillian Fishman The Point
How We Got the Internet All Wrong
Yascha Mounk Substack
The Truth That Frank Meyer Knew
Brian C. Anderson Civitas Institute
Can It Be True? Part Two
George Dardess Close Reading
Reconsidering Theater as a Civil Society Institution
Maggie Sonne Acton Institute
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
Clifford Ando Compact
Anne Lamott and the Power of Hope
Pamela Alma Weymouth The Nation
Presidential Fitness Test Was Humbling. I’m Glad It’s Back.
Kat Rosenfield TheFP
Are Top Podcasters Fudging Their Numbers?
Caitlin Huston The Hollywood Reporter
On Catherine Lacey’s “The Möbius Book”
Natan Last Cleveland Review of Books
Columbia's Sweet Surrender
The Ivy Exile Substack
Coaches Are an Untapped Resource
Ed Foster-Simeon & Tim Howard USA Today
I Challenged Duke’s DEI Dogma
Dr. Kendall Conger RealClearInvestigations
Monday, August 18
The Peculiar Loneliness of Pickleball Singles
Jeremy S. Adams RealClearBooks
‘Americana’ Review
Peter Debruge Variety
The Small-Town Alabamians Fighting a Data Centre
Farahn Morgan UnHerd
Go Long, Young Man
Ross Barkan Political Currents
You Will Not Remember This Essay
Stephanie Yue Duhem The Metropolitan Review
Our Golden Age of Reading (Online)
Angelina Eimannsberger Public Books
Our Minds Are No Longer Ours
Matthew Gasda Café Américain
A Settlement to a Problem That Does Not Admit a Solution
David DesRosiers JNS
Is Cormac McCarthy “Based”?
Matt McManus Jacobin
The Education of David Mamet
Emina Melonic Civitas Outlook
Christopher Rufo vs. The New Yorker
Meghan Daum The Unspeakable
England’s Last Band Standing
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon
A Nuclear Revival on the Old Frontier
Julia Steinberg Arena Magazine
Wrestle, Wrestle
Robert Rubsam Commonweal
A Eulogy for Dial-Up
Visakan Veerasamy Pirate Wires
The "1619 Project", Six Years On
Phillip W. Magness The Freeman
Tattoos Are Virtuous
Kristina Tabor Saccone Wisdom of Crowds
On Some Contemporary Dutch Stories
Nate West Substack
AI Is Capturing Interiority
Daniel Barcay Persuasion
James Baldwin Was Not Your Figurehead
Freddie deBoer Substack
How Metamodernism Can Save Us All
Thaddeus Thomas The Republic of Letters
The Rizz Kid
Daniel J. Flynn NYPost


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