RealClearBooks Week of March 30, 2026 Archives

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Monday, March 30
The Fantasy Baseball Ties That Bind
Jordan Ritter Conn The Ringer
The BTS Machine Lurches Back to Life
Mitch Therieau The New Yorker
Getting to Know the Know-It-Alls
Hannah Katznelson The Hedgehog Review
Book Review: Madeline Cash, ‘Lost Lambs’
Sam Franzini Our Culture
Can Orgies Solve the Fertility Crisis?
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
A Case for Classics
Alexandra Wilson The Critic
An Interview With Freddie deBoer
Greta Dieck & Sam Kahn The Republic of Letters
Tyranny Through Technology
Nicholas Clairmont The Washington Free Beacon
Plagiarism, AI &Why Weed Should Be Illegal
Juliet Escoria & Jarett Kobek Zona Motel
The Digital Leviathan
Renaud Beauchard Brownstone Institute
Remembering the Man, Chuck Norris
Titus Techera Law & Liberty
Byron in Bay Ridge
Stephen G. Adubato Romanticon
'Bummerland' Sends Up Austin’s MAGA Tech-Bro Culture
Theodore Hamm Jacobin
The Polymarket Bar Is America’s Future
Alyson Krueger Esquire
The Decline and Fall of the Information State (For Now)
The Ivy Exile Substack
Chesterton Blazed A Journalistic Trail Worth Following
Bradley Haley Federalist
They Went on Ozempic—and Gave Up on Life
Evan Gardner The Free Press
Taylor Sheridan TV Shows, Definitively Ranked
Derek Lawrence GQ
The Bard of Ireland
Pico Iyer Air Mail


Tuesday, March 31
How I Became a Filmmaker
Lena Dunham The New Yorker
Why the NBA Is Expanding
Howard Beck The Ringer
Why Independent Magazines Are Dying
Yascha Mounk Persuasion
Nancy Lemann’s Resurrection
Snowden Wright Oxford American
The Enigma of Gertrude Stein
David Schurman Wallace The Nation
An Interview With Blake Ball
Elliott Drago Jack Miller Center
Leave Me Behind
Bridget Phetasy Beyond Parody
Peak Anne
Leah Chernikoff Harper's Bazaar
The Ultra-Thick Pancake Is on the Rise
Bettina Makalintal Eater
Mass Censorship Surveillance & Propaganda
J. Peder Zane & James Varney RCI
It’s Hard For Professors to Say Anything Good
Maya Krishnan The Chronicle Review
Ben Lerner’s 'Transcription' Is a Labyrinth
Hannah Rosefield The New Republic
‘National Geographic’ Reclaims Its Legacy
Mark Judge Chronicles
Substacking While Female
Liza Libes The Republic of Letters
Week Four At War In Iran
David DesRosiers RealClearPolitics
In Full Blume
Diane Scharper Washington Examiner
More Man Than Ape
Nicholas Wade City Journal
Elaine Benes Was Right
Troy M. Olson The Frank Forum
'Peaky Blinders' Ratchets Up the Gloom and Black Humor
Eileen Jones Jacobin
Deliberately Misreading Orwell, in Russia and America
Steven Tucker Providence


Wednesday, April 1
The Sci-Fi Novelist Who Disappeared for Decades
Stephanie Burt The New Yorker
Tim Cook (Still) Believes in Crazy Ideas
Ryan D'Agostino Esquire
Is This the End of Art?
Lola Salem The Critic
Revisiting Jay-Z’s Hustler Masterpiece in His Billionaire Era
Hanif Abdurraqib GQ
Way, Way Above the Rim
Liam Baranauskas Southwest Review
What Moloch Wants
Aaron Labaree Cleveland Review of Books
Book Excerpt - The Invisible Coup
Peter Schweizer RealClearInvestigations
The Lives We Don’t See
Ron Charles Substack
Negative Tennis
Owen Lewis n+1
Baseball's New ABS System is the Worst
Carter Davis Johnson Dwelling
Two LLM Writing Scandals
Lincoln Michel Counter Craft
Should We Judge Age-Gap Relationships?
Kat Rosenfield The Free Press
What Does Translation Do?
Jodie Hare Los Angeles Review of Books
The End of My American Literature Era
Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters
What Do Conservatives Mean by “Western Civilization”?
James Diddams Providence
AI and the Cultural Mandate
Nate Fischer The Republic


Thursday, April 2
Kanye West Makes a Record for the A.I. Era
Kelefa Sanneh The New Yorker
America’s Great Airport Meltdown
Brian Phillips The Ringer
The False Dawn of the Post-Literate Society
Thomas Peermohamed Lambert UnHerd
Love Potions
Hannah Rowan The Lamp
Think Nothing of It
Webb Wright The Baffler
How Thoreau Challenged America
Ed Rampell Jacobin
The Hidden Crisis of Addiction Treatment
Zoe Adams The Nation
The Renegade Academy
Spencer A. Klavan The Claremont Review of Books
Drawing a Blank
Elroy Rosenberg The Metropolitan Review
A Visit to the George W. Bush Presidential Center
Brian T. Allen National Review
Joan Didion Was Not a Feminist
Michael Mohr Substack
Cookbooks Are the Next Frontier for Narrative Writing
Emmeline Clein Cultured
Celebrating Passover in Communist Exile
Juliana Geran Pilon Civitas Outlook
The Case for Going to the Moon
Luke Hallam Persuasion
Colm Tóibín on Crafting a Collection of Irish Homecoming
Jane Ciabattari LitHub
The California Novel No One Can Find
Geoffrey Gray Alta Online
Ken Griffin Wants to Reshape Miami
Shawn Tully Fortune
[REVIEW] Barbara Byar's IN THE DESERT
Brett Puryear Pedal Steel
To Win Back Women, Elevate Public Discourse
August Meyrat Crisis Magazine
On Kanye West's 'Bully'
Kieran Press-Reynolds Pitchfork
A Pandemic Novel About Writers, Friendship & Desire
David Levine Bomb Magazine


Friday, April 3
How Bad Is Plagiarism, Really?
Anthony Lane The New Yorker
The Come Up: Jalen Duren’s Leap From Project to Pillar
Logan Murdock The Ringer
Gen Z Is Obsessed With the 1990s
Mary Julia Koch WSJ Free Expression
The Founders’ Cups
Sam Schneider The Claremont Review of Books
An Afternoon With the Rocket-Watchers
Frannie Block The Free Press
On David Ryan’s “Alligator”
Michael Knapp Cleveland Review of Books
Confederate Monuments’ Uncertain Future
Catesby Leigh City Journal
Ossining, New York, in the ‘Unwoke’ 1950s
Thomas Dichter The Dispatch
Abundant Happiness
Terrence Keeley RealClearPolitics
The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite
Elizabeth Spiers The Nation
We Love Systems. We Need Friends.
Will Ogilvie Vega de Seoane The Freeman
The 12 New Books You Should Read in April
Hamilton Cain Time
The Cowardice of the AI Plagiarist
Kathleen Stock UnHerd
2026 James Beard Awards Restaurant and Chef Finalists
Bettina Makalintal Eater
Liberty Beyond “Rational Control”
Daniel J. Mahoney Law & Liberty
What I’ve Learned: Arsenio Hall
Michael Sebastian Esquire
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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