RealClearBooks Week of June 6, 2022 Archives

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Monday, June 6

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Is an Ode to the 1980s

John Jurgensen Buy Side from WSJ

Stalin: His Own Avatar

Gary Saul Morson The New Criterion

T. S. Eliot’s Conservative Modernism

Terry Eagleton Commonweal Magazine

Oui, the People

Jonathan Beckman Literary Review

Seeing the Big Picture

Robert Crowcroft The Critic Magazine

The Dark Night of Leonard Cohen

Katya Sedgwick City Journal

What Was Deconstruction?

Timothy Brennan The Chronicle of Higher Education

Greatest University Ever

Lee Trepanier Law & Liberty

Conservative Wit, Apostle of Freedom

Chuck Chalberg The Imaginative Conservative

‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Soars To $549M Global

Nancy Tartaglione Deadline

Wednesday, June 8

How Harmful Is Social Media?

Gideon Lewis-Kraus The New Yorker

The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This June

Tobias Carroll InsideHook

‘The Apocryphal Gospels’: Good News and Fake News

Michael J. Kruger WSJ

Judge Thomas Jefferson by His Ideals or His Actions?

Daniel N. Gullotta CT

The Cold War at Sea

Ralph L. DeFalco III Law & Liberty

The Antidote to Apocalyptic Thinking

John Wilson First Things

How San Francisco Became a Failed City

Nellie Bowles The Atlantic

Against Perfection

Brian C. Anderson The American Mind

Tom Cruise’s Hit Revives Sternberg’s Last American Film

Armond White NR

Robert Plant, Alison Krauss Are Back on the Road Together

Geoff Edgers WaPo

Thursday, June 9

Looking for the Next Big Thing

Yael Levin Hungerford City Journal

Regimes, Old and New

Jean Yarbrough The American Mind

The Workhorse of the Early Court

John O. McGinnis Law & Liberty

Maybe It's Not Time for Socialism

Donald J. Boudreaux Econlib

Evangelicals and Whig History

Miles Smith First Things

‘In the Shadow of the Gods’ Review: Ruling Earthly Realms

Dominic Green WSJ

How We Gave up on the Future

Dominic Sandbrook UnHerd

The Hong Konger Documentary Is a Lesson on Freedom

Jack Wolfsohn NR

'Ted Lasso' Ending After Third Season Is a Good Thing

Bonnie Stiernberg InsideHook

The Vindication of Jack White

Spencer Kornhaber The Atlantic

Friday, June 10

The 'November Rain' Music Video Defined a Generation

Meredith Blake LA Times

Get Your Dinosaur Fix

Belen Edwards Mashable

‘Doctor Strange’ Sequel Eyes Big Box Office Total

Mark Hughes Forbes

Moody, Classical Still Lifes of Iconic Snacks

Madeleine Connors Bon Appétit

‘Hammer’ Cain Can Be My Wingman Anytime

Jerry Hendrix National Review

The Changeable ‘Scandals’ of Evangelicalism

D.G. Hart The Wall Street Journal

Nixon's Revenge

Glenn Reynolds Law & Liberty

Freakout Nation

Alexander Zubatov The American Mind

Searching for the American Summer Novel

Francesca Peacock The Spectator World

Remembering Roger Angell (1920-2022)

Jonathan Clarke City Journal

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