RealClearBooks Week of February 23, 2026 Archives

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Monday, February 23
The Panic
Paul Franz RealClearBooks
An Olympic Final Worthy of a Rivalry
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
Inside the AI Resistance
Farahn Morgan UnHerd
How I Grew Out of Weed
Josh Code The Free Press
The Ravenous, Radiant Jim Harrison
John McMillian The Metropolitan Review
Sex & Renewal: a Living Topography
Cordelia Romanticon
Time to Man Up
Christine Rosen Washington Free Beacon
Look Mom I'm a Hegelian E-girl
Grace Byron Female Small Business Owner
Why the 'Wuthering Heights' Movie Is Infantilizing
Sophie Gilbert The Atlantic
Something Is Missing
Daniel Kipnis The Baffler
The Dark Side of Paul McCartney
Will Hodgkinson Air Mail
Is This the Year the Oscars Finally Embrace Hunks?
Nate Jones Vulture
'The Pitt' Shows Doctoring Uncensored
Zoe Adams The Nation
Elder Care Fraud
J. Peder Zane & James Varney RealClearInvestigations
Some Liberals Are Reshaping Their Climate Messaging
Gary Abernathy RCEnergy
My Waymo Adventure
Dave Barry Substack
Liberty's Lost Generation
Rachel Lu The Freeman


Tuesday, February 24
The Unlikely Success of a Strange Alabama Bookstore
Casey Cep The New Yorker
The ‘Survivor 50’ FAQ
Miles Surrey The Ringer
George Saunders’s Reluctant Morality Tale
Sam Kahn Compact
Will ‘Spreadsheet Brain’ Ruin Trucking?
Evie Solheim The American Conservative
Valerie Stivers Interviews Garth Greenwell
Valerie Stivers Cracks in Postmodernity
The Sound of Fury
Jack Beyrer Pirate Wires
What Is a ‘Conservative Movie’?
Giancarlo Sopo National Review
What’s So Funny About Infinite Jest?
Lora Kelley The Paris Review
Benicio Del Toro on Bonding With Leo
Seth Abramovitch The Hollywood Reporter
Homeschooling Isn’t for Everyone
Larissa Phillips The Free Press
The Best Moments of the 2026 Winter Olympics
Josh Rosenberg Esquire
How To Make Babies
Christopher Gage Oxford Sour
'Survivor' Has Become a Bleak Mirror of Modern Capitalism
Nic Juarez Jacobin
In Praise of Problematic Women
E.J. Dickson LitHub
What Not Reading Does to Your Writing
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
A Sojourn into the Stephen King Archive
Andy Hageman Los Angeles Review of Books


Wednesday, February 25
Scrubbing Back In
Alan Sepinwall The Ringer
“TBPN” and the Rise of the Tech-Friendly Talk Show
Diego Lasarte The New Yorker
The House of God
Farahn Morgan Long Road Home
Sordid Scenes
Greta Dieck The Republic of Letters
The Lives of Secrets
Martin Gurri Arena Magazine
Banal Over Broadway
Noah Rinsky The Metropolitan Review
Holy Cowtown
Ella Gray Hickman Cleveland Review of Books
Dogma 26
Noah Kumin Mars Review of Books
Robert Duvall’s Faithful Art
Titus Techera First Things
The Failure To Be Interesting: Part 3
Daniel Oppenheimer Eminent Americans
In Tayari Jones’s ‘Kin,’ Friendship Persists as Lives Diverge
Ron Charles Substack
Sam Altman Is Losing His Grip on Humanity
Matteo Wong The Atlantic
A Worthy, Doomed Metaphysical Poet
David Deavel The Imaginative Conservative
Every Invention is a Question
Sam Buntz The Muted Trumpet
America Says Goodbye to the Mass-Market Paperback
David Smith The Guardian
Meet Your Greens
Alex Wakeman Works in Progress
Screens Are Stressing You Out of Your Mind
Arthur Brooks The Free Press
A Colossus on the Court
Mark Pulliam Law & Liberty
The Patriot
Jeremy Stern Colossus
Social Work’s ‘Professional’ Smokescreen
Nathan Gallo Minding the Campus


Thursday, February 26
What Is Palantir? An FAQ.
Brian Phillips The Ringer
What Makes an Object Sexy?
Lillian Fishman The New Yorker
I Went on a Dinner Date With an AI Chatbot
Camille Sojit Pejcha The Playboy Reader
What Holds America Together?
Chris Arnade Chris Arnade Walks the World
Connecticut, and A Dying America
Nikos Mohammadi Romanticon
DVDs are the New Vinyl Records
Cerys Davies Los Angeles Times
Inside the Reviewnaissance
Carolina Abbott Galvão Columbia Journalism Review
You May Not Be Political, But Politics Finds You
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Everyone Speaks Incel Now
Miles Klee Wired
Mario Before the Mob
Atar Hadari The Republic of Letters
On Norman Podhoretz
Daniel J. Mahoney Civitas Outlook
On Michael Silverblatt
Alexander Sorondo Substack
It’s His Turn
Alex Bronzini-Vender The Baffler
Why The Leftist Mob Came For Team USA
Madeline Fry Schultz The Daily Wire
Leave Our Hockey Heroes Alone
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
The View from Here
Jason Guriel Air Mail
Werner Herzog Between Fact and Fiction
Lowry Pressly The Nation
Yes, Human Beings Are Exceptional
Bharath Krishnamoorthy Persuasion
Withering Lows
Genevieve Yue Film Comment
The Midlife Crisis Reading List
Grant Ginder Language Arts


Friday, February 27
The Provocations of 'Wuthering Heights' (the Novel)
Radhika Jones The New Yorker
‘Scream’ Has Become the Butt of Its Own Joke
Miles Surrey The Ringer
The Dawn of Petty Modernity
Nick Burns The Hedgehog Review
Wokeness Makes For a Mixed Season at MASS MoCA
Brian T. Allen National Review
Enough With the Bros
Dan Brooks The Atlantic
Houellebecq at Seventy
David Engels LEO
How to Read about Sports
Derek Neal The Republic of Letters
25 Years of iPod Brain
Molly Mary O'Brien Dirt
The Dyslexia Myth
Julian Elliott Compact
Why Scientists Should Read More Poetry
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
Bad Bets
James Varney RealClearInvestigations
Instagram Broke Its Promise to Protect Teens
Frannie Block & Maya Sulkin Free Press
The Lost Art of Writing a Note by Hand
Nick Sullivan Esquire
The Witness of Ignatius Reilly
Christian E. O'Connell Modern Age
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: A Novel of New York City's Migrant Crisis by City Journal
Available this week: "Rage and the Republic" by Jonathan Turley
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