RealClearBooks Week of September 22, 2025 Archives

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Monday, September 22
Robert Redford, the Last All-American Movie Star
Charles F. McElwee City Journal
The Strange, Cinematic Life of Charlie Sheen
Naomi Fry The New Yorker
The Whimper After the Bang
Lillian Wang Selonick The Metropolitan Review
The Lives of Jewish Intellectuals
Emina Melonic Law & Liberty
Among the Hamilton Fish
Becky Zhang The Point
Rock 'n' Roll's Greatest Oasis
The Ivy Exile Substack
Hidden Life
Dustin Illingworth New Left Review
REVIEW: ‘Spinal Tap II: The End Continues’
Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon
The Decline of Sex and the Alpha Male
Ani Chkhikvadze Spectator World
The Problem Isn't AI Therapy
Neeraja Deshpande Pirate Wires
The Substack Novel - An Interview With John Pistelli
Tom Watters Pilcrow
Professors, Pimps, and Performers
Daniel Nutters Romanticon
NYC (1987) "The Night Andy Warhol Died"
Blake Nelson Travels to Distant Cities
Political Warfare, American Nihilism, and Global Threats
Maggie Miller RCI
Why Do We Hate the "Literary It Girl?"
Audrey Lee Substack
The Antitrust Cases That Matter
Joel Thayer Commonplace
Rage of the Falling Elite
Rob Henderson Rob Henderson's Newsletter
Scrolling Through
Gerald Howard The American Scholar


Tuesday, September 23
“The Lowdown” Is a Noir for Our Era
Inkoo Kang The New Yorker
The Movie of the Year Is Here
Dana Stevens Slate
Mirroring and Pseudo-Empathy
Catherine Liu Damage
American Students Are Getting Dumber
Matthew Yglesias Slow Boring
Loose Wires
Andrew Boryga Dwell
New Series: micro-seasons
Farahn Morgan Long Road Home
Finger-Wagging Won’t Win Over Gen Z
Matthew Wilson Compact
Against Flash Fiction
Alanna Schubach The Literarian Gazette
The Last Wave of British Bravado
John Aziz Café Américain
Requiem for a Zine
Hal Niedzviecki Quillette
On Jordan Castro’s 'Muscle Man'
Teddy Burnette Expat Press
AI, Impressionism, and the Fleeting Now
Denise S. Robbins The Metropolitan Review
Close Reading the Gospel of Luke
William Cain Close Reading
What Can Love Survive? On Vigdis Hjorth’s If Only
Dasha Sikmashvili Zona Motel
AI, Dignity, and the Defense of the American Family
Tim Estes Commonplace
Is Mid-20th Century American Culture Getting Erased?
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
The Great American Migration from Big Cities
Maggie Miller RealClearInvestigations
‘Will There Ever Be Another You’ Never Takes Flight
Hamilton Cain LA Times
Cardi B Gets the Best Revenge
Craig Jenkins Vulture


Wednesday, September 24
A New Pynchon Novel in a Pynchonesque America
Kathryn Schulz New Yorker
Cardi B Is Definitely the Drama, for Better or Worse
Justin Charity The Ringer
Geezer Masculinity Can Rescue Our Lost Boys
Josiah Gogarty The New Statesman
The Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
James Marriott Cultural Capital
You Have Been Conquered by the Machine
Leighton Woodhouse Compact
Cuck-Coded Zarathustra
Adrian Nathan West The Baffler
Saint Bernhard
Greta Rainbow Dirt
Trump’s Monumentalist Aesthetic
Adam Ellwanger & John J. Waters UnHerd
Patrick Ryan’s Novel Doesn’t Pretend to Be Perfect
Maria Albano Spectator World
The Goldilocks of Bothsidesism
Robert N. Watson Los Angeles Review of Books
“The Abysmal Scum!”: On Not Reading Ayn Rand
Jordan Castro The Paris Review
What Christianity Isn't
Samuel Kimbriel Wisdom of Crowds
A Guilty Pleasure
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
My Phone Call with Robert Redford
Peter Tonguette The American Conservative
Reintroducing Charlie
Emina Melonic Splice Today
We’re All Cooked
Jonathan Jameson Cracks in Postmodernity
Absence
Max Callimanopulos Harvard Review


Thursday, September 25
How In-Person Events Can Help Us Fight Loneliness
Frank Filocomo RealClearBooks
‘One Battle After Another’ Is PTA at His Best
Adam Nayman The Ringer
We Are All Extremely Online Now
Ben Sixsmith The Critic
The Mystifying Life of Muriel Spark
John Wilson National Review
The Remnant
Justin Smith-Ruiu Romanticon
What Dwayne Johnson Knows About Pain
Sam Anderson New York Times Magazine
Five Days with Geese, America’s Most Thrilling Rock Band
Grayson Haver Currin GQ
Jimmy Kimmel & the Decline of the American Comedian
Lee Siegel New Statesman
Werner Herzog Is Ready for the Post-Truth World
Siddhartha Mahanta New Republic
Against Treating Chatbots as Conscious
Erik Hoel The Intrinsic Perspective
The Bloody Love of Poe
Kazuo Robinson The Metropolitan Review
Was Picasso’s Poetry Any Good?
Verity Babbs ArtNet
A Soldier for Synthesis
Rachel Lu Law & Liberty
The World Needs Peasants
Maryam Aslany Aeon
Emily Hunt Kivel Is Doing Things a Little Differently
Matthew Binder Language Arts


Friday, September 26
How Danny Got His Dimes Back
Steven Ruiz The Ringer
'The Smashing Machine' Is a Triumph for Dwayne Johnson
Vince Mancini GQ
Downton Abbey and the Love of Place
Peter Keepman Modern Age
Free Speech, Always
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Some of the News That’s Fit to Print
Alexander Nazaryan Arc
Style Is More than Sentences
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
The Moral Hemisphere
Nick Burns The Point
Subscription Prices Gone Wild!
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Guns & Moses
Tevi Troy Tablet
The End of Thinking
Derek Thompson Substack
The Author in the Age of Conglomeration
Vincent Czyz Cleveland Review of Books
Matthew Gasda’s Latest Play Explores a Crisis in AI
Thom Waite Dazed
Jimmy Kimmel Is the Epitome of the ‘Self-Important'
Gary Abernathy Abernathy Road
The Virtue of Nationalism Revisited
Daniel J. Mahoney Civitas Outlook
Broadcast TV Is Obsolete
Sam Raus Pirate Wires
Weaponized Scoops
Paul Sperry RealClearInvestigations
Kimmel Gets Away With It
Daniel McCarthy New York Post
At the SexStack Debate
Sam Buntz The Muted Trumpet
Is Trump’s Base Losing Patience?
Skyler Adleta Commonplace
Gilgamesh
Morgan Meis Close Reading
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Return of the Assassin by Wisdom of Crowds
Available this week: "The Grand Valley" by Morgan Meis
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