RealClearBooks Week of November 24, 2025 Archives

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Monday, November 24
Stories We Tell Ourselves About the American Revolution
Lex Pryor The Ringer
The Odd, Shifting Role of the N.F.L. Punter
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Karp's Quest to Save the Shire
Michael M. Rosen Washington Free Beacon
In the Room With Reagan and Nixon
John J. Waters RealClearHistory
Wendell Berry's Epilogue
Nadya Williams Law & Liberty
I Can't Begin to Tell You How That Feels
Emma Collins A New Heaven
The Future of Journalism
Brian C. Anderson City Journal
Ian McEwan’s Haunting Vision of the Future
Brandon Harris The New Republic
William F. Buckley’s Legacy at 100
Daniel McCarthy Modern Age
My Father's Picture
Andre Aciman The Metropolitan Review
John Updike’s Intimate Voice
James Marcus The New Statesman
Rosalía’s 'Lux' & the Analogia Entis
Sr. Theresa Aletheia Cracks in Postmodernity
Questions on the Beautiful
Alice Gribbin Notes of an Aesthete
Master of Loss
Isabel Mehta Romanticon
Because of You, RealClear Keeps Pushing the Rock Uphill
David DesRosiers RCP


Tuesday, November 25
The Obliging Apocalypse of “Pluribus”
Inkoo Kang The New Yorker
“The Little Movie That Couldn’t”: ‘Mallrats’ Turns 30
Katie Baker The Ringer
The Enduring Relevance of William F. Buckley Jr.
George H. Nash National Review
A Philosopher After All
Daniel Petrick The Baffler
Is ChatGPT Conscious?
Jeff Wise New York Magazine
A Tale of Two College Towns
Phil Christman The Hedgehog Review
The Great Infantilization
Elizabeth Grace Matthew Law & Liberty
Reality Check for Politics
Frank Filocomo University Bookman
Psychedelics Made Me Christian
Justin Smith-Ruiu Compact
Interview with Scott McClanahan
Bud Smith Substack
Herzog in the Jungle of Truth
Sam Shpall Los Angeles Review of Books
Every Man Needs To See 'Train Dreams'
Anthony Breznican Esquire
Noah Baumbach’s 'Jay Kelly' Is a Cautionary Tale
Andrew Marzoni The New Republic
Celebrating the Birth of William F. Buckley, 100 Years Later
Jacob Ogan Providence
Patriot Acts
Andrew Lawler The American Scholar


Wednesday, November 26
Can a Brooklyn Open Mic be the Answer to Loneliness?
Frank Filocomo RCBooks
If I Fight, You Fight: The Oral History of ‘Creed’
Alan Siegel The Ringer
A Thanksgiving Day Guide for Americans of Class & Taste
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
INTERVIEW: Matthew Gasda
Claire Hopple Zona Motel
Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon’s California
Leonardo Goi MUBI
Time and Tide
David Ulin Alta Online
Rage Against the Machine. Or Don’t.
J.C. Scharl Acton Institute
Battered Heart
Brian Patrick Eha Poetry Foundation
The Most Likely AI Apocalypse
Eric Levitz Vox
Giant of the Attic
Alexander Sorondo The Metropolitan Review
It’s Time for a New Left
Ruy Teixeira Persuasion
Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Hope
Charlotte Stroud Engelsberg Ideas
Nick Fuentes and Martin Scorsese
Conrad Flynn Substack
The Return of Richard Siken
Yvonne Kim The Nation
How Allan Bloom Foresaw Our Culture Wars
Stanley Kurtz National Review
100 Notable Books of 2025
Staff New York Times
How Much of Literary History Is a Lie?
Sam Kahn Castalia
They Should Never Make Another Bond Film
Nicholas Clairmont Spectator World
Riding the Dirty Dog
Aaron Lake Smith Empty Railroad Gulch
'The Running Man' Trips Across the Starting Line
Eileen Jones Jacobin


Thursday, November 27
Can ‘Wicked: For Good’ Actually Defy Gravity at the Oscars?
Julianna Ress Ringer
“Landman” Goes Down Like a Michelob Ultra
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
'Avalon' Is Thanksgiving for America
Titus Techera Acton Institute
Radiohead Restored
George Monaghan The New Statesman
Why Are We So Afraid of Conversation?
Lamorna Ash The Dial
User Experience
Thatcher Snyder Romanticon
Vibe shift 2.0
Christine Emba Wisdom of Crowds
The Media Ruined the Thanksgiving Pie
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
The New Hollywood Must-Have? The Status Ghostwriter
Sophie Vershbow Elle
How Will AI Shape Our Future?
Mark P. Mills   City Journal
The Claims of Close Reading
Johanna Winant The Boston Review
Winter Garden
Byung-Chul Han Orion Magazine
Thanksgiving: State of the Harvest
Keely Covello The Freeman
Mommy Dearest
Alana Pockros The Baffler


Friday, November 28
Big Apple Jackpot
Adam Iscoe The New Yorker
‘Stranger Things’ Is Still Finding Fun in the Familiar
Miles Surrey The Ringer
'The Secret Agent' is More Than Just a Great Political Thriller
Corey Atad GQ
'Train Dreams' Is a Vision of Hardscrabble Americana
Stephanie Zacharek Time
The Inexplicable Logic of Contact Sports
Mikaela Dery The Nation
The Racist, AI-Generated Future of Entertainment
Tyler Austin Harper The Atlantic
‘Wildcat’ Review
Catherine Bray Variety
The Rock Star Who Couldn't Sing or Play a Note
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Literary Philosophy and Philosophical Literature
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
One Immigrant Boy’s Journey from Cuba to the CIA
Martin Gurri The Free Press
Our Movie Heritage at 70
Armond White National Review
'The Secret Agent' & the Year in Movies About Resistance
Alison Willmore Vulture
A RealClear Thanksgiving
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Who Is Zohran Mamdani, Really? by Wisdom of Crowds 
Available this week: "Writer's Diary" by Matthew Gasda
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