RealClearBooks Week of August 18, 2025 Archives

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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


Tuesday, August 19
The Hyped Revival of Mixed Doubles
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
The End of Handwriting
Angela Watercutter Wired
Why Humans are Obsessed with Stadium Concerts
Lindsay A. Fleming Time
Thomas Pynchon’s Books – Ranked!
John Keenan The Guardian
Real Heroism Isn’t What You Think
Casey Chalk Modern Age
After Civility
Elizabeth Grace Matthew Law & Liberty
Noah Hawley’s 'Alien: Earth'​ Is Not Such a Tight Ship
Phillip Maciak New Republic
The Good Books
Tod Lindberg Commentary
The Prophet and the Barbarians
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert The Metropolitan Review
Do I Have to Spell It Out for You?
David Skinner Washington Free Beacon
Rosalía Is the Ultimate Romantic
Suzy Exposito Elle
‘Weapons’ De-escalates the Self-Righteous Hollywood Act
Gage Klipper Chronicles
The Subversive Brilliance of 'Barbie'
Lois McLatchie Miller First Things
Why Is Everything Spicy Now?
Ellen Cushing The Atlantic


Wednesday, August 20
Bill Belichick Goes Back to School
Paige Williams The New Yorker
Ranking Every NFL Offense for 2025
Sheil Kapadia The Ringer
Austin Butler's Radical Reset
Lauren Larson Men's Health
The Grand Ballroom Theory of Literature
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
How Sororities Seduced the Online Right
Poppy Sowerby UnHerd
The Man in the New Boots
Chandler Fritz The Paris Review
The New Ex-Gay
Stephen G. Adubato Compact
The Many Lives of Billy Wilder
Noah Isenberg The Nation
Sex Sells, And The Right Bought It
Marlo Slayback The Daily Wire
Billionaires Backing Woke Math Doesn't Add
Lee Fang RealClearInvestigations
Neurotica: On Jordan Castro's 'Muscle Man'
Jonah Howell Cracks in Postmodernity
Violence and Beauty
Rachel Wiseman The Point’s Substack
Rob Manfred Can't Fix Baseball
Jason Russell Reason
My Despicable Romp through Visual AI
Maya Sinha Creative License
Actually, Goodreads Is Good
Angelina Mazza Slate
Not a Trend, a Tradition
Jennifer May Reiland Substack


Thursday, August 21
The Budding Rivalry of Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner
Hua Hsu The New Yorker
Matthew Stafford and the Rams Are in a Race Against Time
Diante Lee The Ringer
Masculinity at the End of History
Matthew Gasda American Affairs
The Terror of the Aged Woman
Justin Lee UnHerd
Nini
Tao Lin Harper's
Your Therapist Is Not God
Stephen G. Adubato Soft Union
It-girl Literary Heroines Are All Cannibals Now
Ella Dorn New Statesman
Paradise Lost
Sav Huitema The Metropolitan Review
The Empire’s Shadow
Jorge Cotte The Nation
The Sensitivity Era
Robert Huddleston Quillette
Welcome to the Era of Astroturf Fandom
Freddie deBoer Substack
'Animal Farm' at 80
John P. Rossi & John Rodden Acton Institute
Challenging Duke Health's DEI Policy Cost Me My Job
Maggie Miller RCI
The Sublime Terror of the Blue Angels
James Diddams Providence
Max Frankel's Endlessly Excellent "The Times of My Life"
John Tamny RCMarkets


Friday, August 22
The Redemption of Chance the Rapper
Brady Brickner-Wood The New Yorker
Disney’s Boy Trouble
Matt Donnelly Variety
We Know It’s a Show
Hamilton Cain Los Angeles Review of Books
A24’s Middling Foray Into Politics
Evan Spear The Dispatch
The Homemade Scholar
Chandler Fritz Harper's
The Empty Provocations of Eddington
Kelli Weston The Nation
Class Dismissed
Jeremy Stern Colossus Review
'Sorry, Baby' and the End of the Trauma Plot
George Monaghan The New Statesman
Diversity, Real and Imposed
Gregory M. Collins Civitas Outlook
My 24 Guitars
Elissa Altman The Bitter Southerner
When Charles Portis met Elvis
David Wesley Williams Substack
Ratcatching in the Ruins
Travis Woods Southwest Review
The End of the Non-Woke Bingeable Television
Auguste Meyrat Chronicles
Casey Wasserman’s Olympic Odyssey
Peter Kiefer The Hollywood Reporter
The Seeker and the Sought
Costica Bradatan The American Scholar
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Harms of the Digital Age by Persuasion
Available this week: "Nightswimming" by Melanie Anagnos
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