RealClearBooks Week of March 23, 2026 Archives

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Monday, March 23
LeBron James Is Making His Last Great Adjustment
Louisa Thomas The New Yorker
An Early Preview of the 2027 Best Picture Oscar Race
Julianna Ress The Ringer
The Women Joining the New Right
Freya India First Things
Why Cormac McCarthy Stopped Reading New Novels
Vincenzo Barney UnHerd
Why Watching March Madness Just Isn’t That Fun Anymore
Matthew Roberson GQ
Manosphere: Girlboss Feminism Repackaged
Magdalene J. Taylor The Playboy Reader
Against American Diner Gothic
Katherine Dee default.blog
But It Feels So Real to Me
Sam Franzini Los Angeles Review of Books
Fire and Smoke of the Soul
Zane Perdue Romanticon
Critique of ‘Agentic’ Reason
Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack
Project Hail Mary: The Stars Want Us Happy
Giancarlo Sopo National Review
Return of the Goddess
Noah Kumin Arcade Publishing
The Death of Millennial Feminism
Helen Lewis The Atlantic
The Mores of Machines
Thomas Dias Civitas Outlook
The Frankensteined Feminism of The Bride!
Beatrice Loayza The New Republic
Scalia Ascendant
Ed Whelan Washington Free Beacon
Down and Out in the 2020s
John Paul Larson Chicago Review of Books
The Truth About F. Scott Fitzgerald
A. A. Kostas Magazine Non Grata
Remobilizing the American Industrial Machine
Farrell Gregory Commonplace
‘Project Hail Mary’ Scores Biggest Debut of Year
Rebecca Rubin Variety
Are Prediction Markets Better Than Sportsbooks?
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss


Tuesday, March 24
Civic Education, Civil Society, and Americanism
Frank Filocomo RealClearBooks
Exclusive: The Jay-Z Interview
Frazier Tharpe GQ
Inside ‘The Situation Room’
Nicholas Clairmont The Free Press
#93: Tao Lin
Tao Lin Health Gossip
James Baldwin’s Philosophy of Love
Sam Jennings UnHerd
Living IRL: I Love LA and Perfection
R. Wang Zona Motel
A Love Letter to the Sane Women Holding It Down
Bridget Phetasy Beyond Parody
Britain Is Bringing Back the Blasphemy Laws
Toby Young The American Conservative
The Valley! The Valley! The San Fernando Valley!
Emmett Rensin The Dispatch
Is the Diva in Danger of Extinction?
Louis Staples Harper's Bazaar
Chuck Norris Is Still Undefeated
Jack Butler WSJ Free Expression
The Rise of the Sourdough People
Nicole James The Freeman
Kafka’s Misdiagnosis
Aaron Schuster The Paris Review
Montaigne and the Origins of Substack
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Teaching and Mimetic Dysfunction
Juan Manuel Martínez Cracks in Postmodernity
Me Too Too Far?
J. Peder Zane & James Varney RCI Podcast
How Roger L. Simon's 'EMET' Restored My Faith in Fiction
Aaron Hanscom PJ Media
The Man Who Treats Sick Children With Cannabis
Jana Meisenholder Esquire
How Tarkovsky Taught Me to Write About the West
Caroline Tracey LitHub
The Two Nightmares of Jürgen Habermas
Joseph Heath Persuasion
How Technology Re-Tribalized Us
Robert Lynch Compact
Parallel Kingdom
Mark Mordue Quillette


Wednesday, March 25
“Judy Blume: A Life” and the Problem of Biography
Katy Waldman The New Yorker
The 2026 MLB Preseason Power Rankings
Anthony Dabbundo The Ringer
Killers of the Flower Moon: A Formal Feeling
Vinson Cunningham Criterion Collection
High School Confidential
David Polonoff The Metropolitan Review
The Prince of New York
Isabella Redjai City Journal
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Morten Høi Jensen Commonweal
Chatbot Therapy Will Make You a Monster
Moya Sarner UnHerd
The Rise of the Ray-Ban Meta Creep
Miles Klee Wired
Behind the Clean Queen of the Dirty Internet
Eileen Cartter GQ
The Trouble With Adapting 'Wuthering Heights'
Victoria Baena The Nation
Rachel Knox On Florida as a Force
Brittany Ackerman Zona Motel
The Backward Road of American Trucking
Gord Magill Commonplace
Has Legalizing Sports Gambling Become a Bad Bet?
RCP Video RealClearPolitics
The Protest "Gray Zone"
Maggie Miller The Miller Report
What Success Costs
Ron Charles Substack


Thursday, March 26
Why You Hate Your Weather App
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Yankees
Kai Schreiner Esquire
On Autism, Institutions, and the Cost of Thriving
Jennifer Berney Dirt
Casino Sociale
T.M. Brown Substack
Neverending Stories
J.W. McCormack The Baffler
The Art of Reading Bukowski
Paul Clayton The Republic of Letters
A Heavenly New Art Museum for Notre Dame
Brian T. Allen National Review
Substack Has Revived the Serial Novel
A. A. Kostas Compact
The Online Right’s New Intellectual Crush
Samuel Rubinstein UnHerd
Spring in its Cruelty
Lizzie Bickerstaff Romanticon
The Revolutionary Power of Romantic Love
Pamela B. Paresky Psychology Today
“The Worst Neighbor Ever”
Alexander Sammon Slate
When Did the Natural World Stop Feeling Sublime?
Isabel Ruehl The Nation
Citizen Sleuths Spotlight Red Flags Galore
James Varney RealClearInvestigations
The Absence of Civil Society Created Nick Fuentes
Frank Filocomo Philanthropy Daily
Carter Family Values
Noel Yaxley Chronicles
How AI Is Creeping Into The New York Times
Vauhini Vara The Atlantic


Friday, March 27
Does A.I. Need a Constitution?
Jill Lepore The New Yorker
The Pirates and A’s Are MLB’s Lopsided Dark Horses
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
The Very Good Soldier
Alexander Sorondo The Metropolitan Review
Joan Didion's Notebooks of the American South
Nate Hanrahan Magazine Non Grata
What Nobody Knows About Jay-Z
Chris Heath GQ
Inside the Even Bigger Whale
Henry Begler A Good Hard Stare
Book Excerpt: The Information State
Jacob Siegel RealClearInvestigations
What Is TV’s Problem With Professors?
Phillip Maciak The New Republic
My Intelligence Isn't Artificial, Thanks
Sam Kahn Persuasion
Supersensual Ear
Patricia Lockwood London Review of Books
The Algorithm in the House
Joshua Corey The Republic of Letters
John Malone's Spectacular "Born to Be Wired
John Tamny RealClearMarkets
Under the Aspect of Eternity
Clare Carlisle Cluny Journal
The Classical Liberal Sensibility
Erik W. Matson The Freeman
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Steven Spielberg Conversation by The Ringer
Available this week: "Rage and the Republic" by Jonathan Turley
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