RealClearBooks Week of March 16, 2026 Archives

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Monday, March 16
The Winners and Losers of the 2026 Oscars
Miles Surrey The Ringer
The Perverse, Tender Worlds of Paul Thomas Anderson
David Denby New Yorker
What I Did When the World Went Crazy
Meghan Daum The Freeman
Leo McCarey’s Great, Neglected Movie
Alan Jacobs Portico
The New Cultural Criticism
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Defeating the Literary Industrial Complex
Blake Nelson Travels to Distant Cities
What Happened to Tucker?
Tevi Troy Civitas Outlook
The Monster and the Critics
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
Non-Performative Femininity
Nina Power Alata Magazine
Prestige Fiction Is Dead
Dennis Wilson Wise Los Angeles Review of Books
An Interview With Dan Sinykin
Sam Kahn The Republic of Letters
Louis Theroux’s Pointless Manosphere Documentary
River Page The Free Press
Feminism vs. Feminine Mystery in Film
Mark Judge Chronicles
The Great Table Tennis Renaissance
Joshua Levkowitz The Nation
Oscars 2026: Winners, Biggest Moments, and Highlights
Anthony Breznican Esquire
Problem Child
Eli Cugini The Baffler
Boomer Wisdom
Auguste Meyrat American Greatness
The Fun of Putting Words Together
David Deavel Imaginative Conservative
Naughty by Nature?
Naomi Schaefer Riley Washington Free Beacon


Tuesday, March 17
No More Battles for Paul Thomas Anderson
Julianna Ress The Ringer
The Oscars Were a Protest Against Their Own Irrelevance
Justin Chang New Yorker
A Night’s Sleep
Vincenzo Latronic The Yale Review
Who Has the Right to Offend?
Autumn Widdoes The Republic of Letters
What the Tech Right Learned from Habermas
Geoff Shullenberger Compact
The Obsession With Unmasking Elena Ferrante
Lily Isaacs The Observer
PTA Always Knew He'd Be a Winner
David Rensin The Playboy Reader
Slackers vs. Strivers
Tyler Watamanuk Dirt
Empty Hiss
Max Callimanopulos Los Angeles Review of Books
The Woman Behind the Donald
Paul du Quenoy Chronicles
Shoot the Messenger
Jerusalem Demsas The Argument
Is That Your Kid’s Drawing or the Cover a Hot New Novel?
Maddie Connors LATimes
On 'Now I Surrender'
Will Noah 4Columns
The Population Panic, Then and Now
Max DuBoff Arc
And the Oscar Goes to … Men Not at Work
Stephen Lurie Jacobin


Wednesday, March 18
How Arsenio Hall Shook Up Late Night
Jennifer Wilson The New Yorker
The Real Legacy of Kevin Durant
Michael Lee The Ringer
Playing Basketball Taught Me About the Creative Process
Ben Markovits LitHub
The Divorce Revolution Comes to Suburbia
Ron Charles Substack
The Trials of Fatherhood
Joshua Doležal The Metropolitan Review
Luke Combs Wants to Win the World Over With Country
Marissa R. Moss GQ
A Note on Ashbery's Breezeway
Michael Chang Cleveland Review of Books
Colleen Hoover’s Awful Reign Has Only Just Begun
Eileen Jones Jacobin
The Scapegoat
Nancy Rommelmann RealClearInvestigations
Lede-ing Ladies
Anne Matthews The American Scholar
I’m Proud to Call Myself a Disney Adult
Liel Leibovitz The Free Press
Mass at the Drive-In Theater
Aaron M. Renn The Hedgehog Review
Typos Have Plagued Us for Centuries
Sonja Anderson Smithsonian Magazine
Ease Over Beauty Every Day
Helena Duncan Kismet


Thursday, March 19
Lisa Kudrow Is Back—Again
Michael Schulman The New Yorker
Baseball’s Dodgers Problem Is Eternal
Lex Pryor The Ringer
American Diner Gothic
Robert Mariani The New Atlantis
Teaching, Then and Now
Gary Arms The Republic of Letters
Why Team USA Was So Hard to Root For
Matthew Roberson GQ
The Shock of the Old
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Why I Learned to Love Islamic Mysticism
Rob Doyle UnHerd
The Basic Drive That Humans Might Be Losing
Anna Louie Sussman The Atlantic
The Art of Visiting an Art Fair from Afar
Brian T. Allen National Review
The World’s Worst Journalist
Hannah Gold Harper's
AI and the Myth of the Machine
Conor McGlynn Compact
What AI Hypists Miss
Francis Fukuyama Persuasion
Good Reading, Good Thinking, Good Writing
Josie Barboriak The New Critic
Shakira's Groundbreaking Rock Hall Nomination
Suzy Exposito Los Angeles Times
The Loneliness of Russia’s First Poet
Ilya V. Ganpantsura Front Porch Republic
The Boys Are (Mostly) Alright
Josh Kaplan The Free Press


Friday, March 20
Why Tech Bros Are Now Obsessed with Taste
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
Winners and Losers of the 2026 World Baseball Classic
Anthony Dabbundo Ringer
Do You Actually Have to Finish That Novel?
Michel Chaouli The Yale Review
Jersey Girl
Habib Sabet The Metropolitan Review
Jane Austen’s Virtuous Liberalism
Oliver Traldi Fusion
Time & the Essay
Elisa Gabbert Cluny Journal
The Last Human Oscars?
Adam Nayman The New Republic
Niall Horan Makes Sense of Love, Loss, and Growing Up
Alyssa Bereznak GQ
The Poet's Vision
Ryan Wilson New Verse Review
A Meeting of Minds
Henry T. Edmondson III Law & Liberty
Louis Theroux Exposes the Manosphere Scam
Rob Henderson WSJ Free Expression
Why Can’t These Men Stop Playing with Toy Cars?
Rosael Torres-Davis Esquire
Who Is the Funniest....Philosopher?
James Harris The Republic of Letters
Howard Schultz Ditches Seattle
Surse Pierpoint The Daily Economy
The Strangest Book in Harvard Library
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Is Modern Malaise Actually Modern?
Ripley Stroud & Ian Tuttle Wisdom of Crowds
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Who We Are by City Journal
Available this week: "Rage and the Republic" by Jonathan Turley
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