RealClearBooks Week of January 5, 2026 Archives
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Monday, January 5
Brian Phillips The Ringer
Jennie Lightweis-Goff The Freeman
Emma Collins The Metropolitan Review
Vesper North Los Angeles Review of Books
Caroline Breashears Law & Liberty
Natalie Adler The New Republic
Elliot Ackerman The Free Press
Heather Mac Donald Claremont Review of Books
John J. Waters & Ross Calvin RealClearDefense
Daniel McCarthy New York Post
Multiple authors The Republic of Letters
Nicholas Russell The Baffler
Jonathan Miltimore Civitas Outlook
Tuesday, January 6
Michael Waters New Yorker
Matthew Specktor The Hollywood Reporter
Pamela Paresky Habits of a Free Mind
P. S. Dean Southwest Review
Oliver Traldi The Dispatch
Alexa Margorian Cleveland Review of Books
John Rodden Acton Institute
Stephen Kearse The Nation
Jessica Blough & Elizabeth Casillas Alta Online
Jill Murray & William desRosiers RealClearPennsylvania
James McManus The American Scholar
Wednesday, January 7
Eli Frankel RealClearBooks
Jay Caspian Kang New Yorker
Bradley J. Birzer Law & Liberty
Sam Jennings The Metropolitan Review
Alessandra Bocchi Alata Magazine
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
Chris Arnade Chris Arnade Walks the World
Frank Filocomo Philanthropy Daily
Matthew David Segall Romanticon
Kelly Chapman Spectator World
Thursday, January 8
Matt Dollinger The Ringer
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Annie Berke The New Republic
Matthew Gasda First Things
Steven Phillips-Horst The Cut
Spencer Neale The American Conservative
Sam Buntz The Muted Trumpet
James Piereson The New Criterion
Christopher Caldwell The Free Press
Alexander Larman The Observer
Friday, January 9
David DesRosiers Spectator
Michael Sebastian Esquire
Judge Glock Law & Liberty
Paula Marantz Cohen The American Scholar
Wai Wah Chin City Journal
Madeleine Watts The Baffler
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
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