RealClearBooks Week of June 8, 2026 Archives

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Monday, June 8

How the Knicks Are Beating the Spurs

Louisa Thomas The New Yorker

The Latest ‘Scary Movie’ Refuses to Go for the Jugular

Adam Nayman The Ringer

Rafael Nadal and the Price of Greatness

Joe Nocera The Free Press

The Rival Theologies of Artificial Intelligence

Duncan Umphrey Palladium

RealClear Goes to London

David DesRosiers RealClearWorld

Midwestern Mindtrips

Henry Begler A Good Hard Stare

Forty Years of Baudrillard’s 'America'

Paul Heron Café Américain

In Defense of Difficult Reading

Todd Shy The American Scholar

The Case for Booksmaxxing

Jesse Relkin The Metropolitan Review

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Ted Chiang The Atlantic

The Oral Literature of the American People

Justin Smith-Ruiu Romanticon

Mario Vargas Llosa & the Populist Novel

Geoff Shullenberger Compact’s Substack

Phoebe Bridgers's No-Phones MSG Show

Erin Somers GQ

The Active Dead

Lee Oser Civitas Outlook

Harvard’s Slide into Stupidity

Mary Grabar Washington Free Beacon

Inside the Anti-Tech Rebellion In Schools

Nicholas Smyth Persuasion

Who Is the Funniest ... Poet?

Sam Kahn The Republic of Letters

Rafael Nadal as Primal Experience

Danny Postel New Lines Magazine

The Era of Cheap AI Is Over

Sophie Bandarkar Jacobin

Don't Dethrone Consciousness!

Erik Hoel The Intrinsic Perspective

On Reviewing

Ann Kjellberg Book Post

Tuesday, June 9

A Comfortable Demise

Peter Biles RealClearBooks

Pain, Pride, and Patrick Ewing

Daniel Chin The Ringer

The High Style of the Hater

Nicholas Dames n+1

The End of Style: Defoe to DeWitt

Chapman Caddell Cleveland Review of Books

A Child’s World

Sloane Crosley LitHub

On 'The American Book of Fables'

Evie Solheim The American Conservative

My AI Boyfriend

Lauren Oyler The Yale Review

The Singular Power of 'Persepolis'

Phillip Maciak The New Republic

This Have-Not Province

Dustin Illingworth Poetry Foundation

Gordon Wood’s Proust

Nic Rowan The Lamp

Aaron Rodgers' Real Last Season Is One Worth Watching

Oliver Bateman RCPenn

America Is Sounding the Alarm About Britain and Europe

Roger Kimball Spectator

The Greats and their Challengers

Oliver Traldi Substack

Constitutional Carry Expands - Are Americans Safer?

Maggie Miller RCInvestigations

Idiots: On Munch and von Trier

Karl Ove Knausgaard The Paris Review

REVIEW: Lovers XXX by Allie Rowbottom

Juliet Escoria Zona Motel

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Judith Miller: An Extraordinary Career by City Journal

Available this week: "Colossus" by Ross Barkan

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