RealClearBooks Week of September 15, 2025 Archives

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Monday, September 15
Toward a Unified Theory of Motorcycle Gangs
Helena Hunt The Ringer
Francis Ford Coppola Going for Broke on “Megalopolis”
Richard Brody New Yorker
Rolling with the Punches
Robert Henderson City Journal
Knickknack Diaspora
Nic Rowan Washington Examiner
How the West Lost Its Soul
Paul Kingsnorth The Free Press
The Power of Art in the AI Age
Megan Gafford The Metropolitan Review
The Decline of Criticism, Part Two Billion
B.D. McClay Notebook
The Last Chopper Out of Nam
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
The Word and the Machine: On Paul Kingsnorth
Adam Smith Front Porch Republic
The New Age of the Assassin
Ross Barkan Political Currents
How Bowl-Slop Conquered All
Matthew Gasda UnHerd
Chernow Speaks of Twain But Doesn’t Know His Words
Lee Oser Civitas Outlook
Panic and Prophecy
Helen Rouner McNally Editions
The Great Substack Gold Rush
Aaron Lake Smith Empty Railroad Gulch
Vitality and Virtue
Thomas Jockin Romanticon
How TIFF Became a Dumping Ground for Vanity Projects
Greta Rainbow The Walrus
Can Columbia Be Redeemed?
The Ivy Exile Substack
The Bloodthirstiness of the Left Is Not New
Roger Kimball Spectator World
A Real Stand-Up Guy
Jay Nordlinger Washington Free Beacon
The Taboo of Female Violence in Relationships
Maggie Miller RealClearInvestigations
The Bluesky-ization of the American left
Noah Smith Noahpinion


Tuesday, September 16
Bad Bunny’s Puerto Rican Homecoming
Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker
The Winners and Losers of the NFL Week 2
Steven Ruiz The Ringer
Prove Charlie Right
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics
Reviving the Study of Western Civilization
James Hankins Law & Liberty
Camus Comes to America
Daniel J. Mahoney Spectator World
The Virtues of MMA
Stuart Doyle Compact
Manic Pixie Dream Bestie
Gideon Leek The Metropolitan Review
On “Perfection” by Vincenzo Latronico
Gregory Jones-Katz Cleveland Review of Books
Permanent Condition
Lorna Scott Fox New Left Review
Perplexity
Trevor Quirk The Hedgehog Review
The Long Walk Is a Long Slog
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Desi Arnaz's Revolution Was Televised
Steven Kurtz Reason
Book Review: Simon Kuper's "Chums" .
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Geopolitics and the Making of the Modern World
John P. Rossi University Bookman
The Bard of Britain
Johanna Thomas-Corr Air Mail
The Invention of Judd Apatow
Adrienne LaFrance The Atlantic
What I've Learned: Reba McEntire
Alan Light Esquire


Wednesday, September 17
Inside Uniqlo’s Quest for Global Dominance
Lauren Collins The New Yorker
The Robert Redford Syllabus
Adam Nayman The Ringer
The Coming Acceleration
Brent Orrell Law & Liberty
Why Jane Austen Is Still the Queen of Romance
Julia Yost Spectator World
Freedom to Speak, and Freedom from Fear
Maggie Anders The Freeman
Robert Redford Was the Last Simple Beauty
David Thomson New Statesman
'Lonesome Dove' Grew on Me
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
The Pandemic of Fake Jobs
Alex McCann Persuasion
What Are Drugs For?
Emmeline Clein The Nation
Feeling to Feeling
John Skoyles Commonweal
The Ultimate Fall 2025 Reading List
Emily Temple LitHub
Into the Woods to Read McConaughey’s Poetry
Dina Gachman Texas Monthly
Hinge Points, Hate Speech, Brainrot
Christine Emba Wisdom of Crowds
Honor the Memory of Charlie Kirk
Ryan P. Williams The American Mind
Your Massive Back To School Reading List
Staff Language Arts
Pride and Prejudice
Steve Salerno Quillette


Thursday, September 18
Robert Redford Created a New Type of Hollywood Star
Brian Phillips The Ringer
What I Wanted, What I Got
Rachel Kushner The New Yorker
Your Friends Are Not in Your Phone
Mary Townsend Plough
The Rise of the Seizers
Walter Kirn Unbound
Review: Katharina Volckmer, ‘Calls May Be Recorded’
Sam Franzini Our Culture
Against the City of Noise
Justin Lee Cluny Journal
The True Threat of OpenAI
Andrew Deck The Nation
Against Literature
Manuel M. Novillo The Metropolitan Review
Large Language Muddle
The Editors n+1
The Wrath of Republican Cancel Culture
Matt Feeney UnHerd
Understanding Tyler Robinson’s Motives
Josh Code The Free Press
A Novel That Helps Explain the Manosphere
Jeremy Gordon The Atlantic
Monsters and Melancholics
Andrea Penman-Lomeli The Baffler
The Universal Economic Appeal of Charlie Kirk’s Legacy
Edward Ring AmGreatness
Tires Is The Only Comedy Show On TV
Peter James The Republic of Letters
Pledging My Love
Joe Cauley Romanticon
The Fall of the Last Mainline Seminary
Kayla Bartsch Civitas Outlook
The Faust Myth Foretells AI
Andrew Wachtel Persuasion
Tyriq Withers Is Blitzing Through Hollywood
Yang-Yi Goh GQ
Lessons from Google Search Ruling
David B. McGarry The Daily Economy
Entrepreneurship and the Spirit of Adventure
Aaron M. Renn Aaron Renn


Friday, September 19
The Slow, Boring Erosion of the Kansas City Chiefs Dynasty
Steven Ruiz The Ringer
Why Gen Z Hates Work
Maya Sulkin The Free Press
Labubu Nation
Ryan Zickgraf Compact
Filling in the Dating Gaps
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
Dakota and Elle Fanning, Together at Last
Savannah Walsh Vanity Fair
‘One Battle After Another’ Review
Owen Gleiberman Variety
Black Rabbit: Gourmands of New York
George Monaghan The New Statesman
The Censors Come for Kimmel
Luke Hallam Persuasion
Freak Feminism: On Andrea Dworkin
Kathleen Hurlock Cleveland Review of Books
Is the Examined Life Enough?
Christian Alejandro Gonzalez Modern Age
The Anxiety Plaguing Male Fiction Writers
Robert Rubsam Vulture
To a Young Writer
Joyce Carol Oates Substack
Podcasts & Plastic Surgery Are Shaping Male Beauty Standards
Joshua Hunt GQ
The Magic of Masculinity
Spencer Oakes Substack
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Chips and Slips by Compact
Available this week: "The Grand Valley" by Morgan Meis
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