RealClearBooks Week of March 31, 2025 Archives

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Monday, March 31
The Newspaper Flourishing Without a Paywall
Charlotte Klein New York Magazine
Rachel Zegler Has Turned Into a Scapegoat—and an Icon
Chris Murphy Vanity Fair
America’s Librarians Became Militantly Political
Mark Hemingway The Federalist
It’s Gatsby’s World, We Just Live in It
A.O. Scott New York Times
My Adventures in Journalism
Jim Kelly Air Mail
Barnes & Noble’s Indie Rebrand
Paula Mejia Dirt
‘Snow White,’ Woke Preppers, David Blaine—and More!
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
The Quest for the Catholic Beethoven
Grant Kaplan Compact
Who Asked for This 'Snow White' Remake?
Madeline Fry Schultz Washington Examiner
Bluesky Blues: A New Investigatory Series
Riley Nork Pirate Wires
'Everybody’s Live With John Mulaney' Is a Mess
Phillip Maciak New Republic
The Lost Innocence of 'Grey’s Anatomy'
Emily Jashinsky UnHerd
Solzhenitsyn’s One Word of Truth
Richard M. Reinsch II Civitas Institute
March Madness’s Descent Into Money Mania
Spencer Neale American Conservative
Five Best: Books on Inventors and Innovators
Carl Schramm Wall Street Journal
Baseball May Be Trapped in a Two-Party System
Ryan Spaeder Spectator World
Remembering Eva Brann
Elizabeth Eastman Chronicles
Summer Vacation Travel Tips
Dave Barry Substack
Are Books Finished?
Sam Kahn Castalia
Happy Birthday, Old Sport
Kazuo Robinson Substack
The Limits of Rights
Jake Romm The Baffler


Tuesday, April 1
Baseball Reaches Its Breaking Point
Lindsey Adler The New Yorker
The End of Hooters
Annie Joy Williams The Atlantic
The Creepiness of Amanda Knox
Valerie Stivers UnHerd
The Movie That Missed Peak Woke
Nora Kenney The American Conservative
The Rules and the Game
John G. Grove Law & Liberty
Why AI Will Not Replace Creativity
Alessandra Bocchi Alata Magazine
The Average College Student Is Illiterate
Hilarius Bookbinder Persuasion
Confessions of a Once-Bearded Lady
Elisa Albert Arc
Moving On From Anti-Woke?
Daniel Oppenheimer & Naomi Kanakia Eminent Americans
Feminist Polemic Now!
Grace Byron Lux Magazine
W.G. Sebald and the Politics of Melancholy
Colin Dickey The New Republic
The Life and Death of Conspiracy Cinema
T.M. Brown The Nation
Loos Woman
Michelle Stacey Air Mail
Don’t Blame Rachel Zegler for 'Snow White'
Eileen Jones Jacobin
A Descent Into Poe's Maelstrom
Micah Mattix Washington Free Beacon
Waiting for the Golden Age
Pedro Gonzalez Chronicles
The Fall and Rise of Communism
Daniel McCarthy & Sean Mcmeekin Modern Age
Passing the Point of Resistance
Clare Morell Commonplace
Unparalleled Processing
Michael Knapp Los Angeles Review of Books


Wednesday, April 2
Are We Taking A.I. Seriously Enough?
Joshua Rothman The New Yorker
Just Let MLB Hitters Have Their Bulbous Bats
Ben Lindbergh The Ringer
Talk Is Deep
Ben Sixsmith The Critic
I Also Like Bad College Basketball
Ethan Strauss House of Strauss
Searching for Bigger
Luke McGowan-Arnold The Metropolitan Review
Autism’s Missing Women
Gina Rippon Aeon
To Gen Z, Emotions Are Kinky
Madeline Fry Schultz The Dispatch
Techno Worship
Merilyn Chang Cleveland Review of Books
The State of American Downtowns
Aaron Renn Commonplace
Everyone Has a Substack. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Jessica Karl Bloomberg
'Glengarry Glen Ross' Returns
Sara Holdren Vulture
Titus Welliver & the Legacy of ‘Bosch’
Demetrius Patterson Hollywood Reporter
Kamala's TikTok Millions Couldn't Make 'Brat' Happen
Lee Fang RCI
Shūsaku Endō, Christianity, and Japan
Nadya Williams Providence Magazine
The Categorical Judeo-Christian Imperative
Juliana Geran Pilon New English Review


Thursday, April 3
The “Snow White” Controversy
Jessica Winter The New Yorker
Missed 3s Are Taking Over the NBA
Kirk Goldsberry The Ringer
Remembering Val Kilmer
Owen Gleiberman Variety
The Right Has Forgotten Feeling
Freya India First Things
And They’re Off
Martin Dolan The Baffler
Transcending the Glass Ceiling
Lydia Moland The American Scholar
The Devil and Mary Gaitskill
Pete Tosiello The Metropolitan Review
Leslie Bibb Is Having the Time of Her Life
Nojan Aminosharei Harper's Bazaar
Bad Ghibli
Mike Solana Pirate Wires
Why the Algorithm Loves Gen Z’s ‘It Couple’
Sam Schube GQ
How 'Survivor' Unlocks 'The White Lotus'
David Canfield Vanity Fair
There’s Nothing Righteous About Vandalizing Teslas
Ben Cohen Persuasion
Val Kilmer, an Unclassifiable Heartthrob
Jordan Mintzer The Hollywood Reporter
An Attack on Free Speech: The Censorship Industrial Complex
Maggie Miller RCI
Olivia The Spy
Aled Maclean-Jones The Republic of Letters
Edna O’Brien’s Real Feminine Mystique
Mark Judge Chronicles


Friday, April 4
A Question Well-Posed
Sam Buntz RealClearBooks
The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki
Kyle Chayka The New Yorker
We Shall Be As gods
Tara Isabella Burton Wisdom of Crowds
Nu Metal Will Never Be Cool. That’s Why I Love It
Magdalene Taylor GQ
Why Can’t Our Kids Write?
Liza Libes Pens and Poison
Ross Douthat’s Serious Fantasy
Valerie Stivers Compact
Dana Gioia, Enchanter-Poet
James Matthew Wilson Modern Age
An Exile in Time and Space
Spencer A. Klavan Law & Liberty
The White Male Writer is Fine, I Promise
Alex Skopic Current Affairs
The Way of All Flesh
Harris Lahti The Baffler
Cracked Actor: Steve Buscemi
Grace Byron Metrograph
The Excesses of 'Mickey 17'
Phoebe Chen The Nation
The Pop Culture Branding Explosion
Amelia Tait The New Statesman
Dear, Drear Washington Irving
Stephen Akey The Republic of Letters
Climate Change Driving California’s Golden Road to Decline
Joel Kotkin RCI
William and Henry James
Peter Brooks The Paris Review
Ambassador of Dreams
Gary Saul Morson The New Criterion
In Praise Of ‘The Pitt,’ The Most Normal Show On Television
Mark Asch Defector
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Did Wokeness and Trump Kill Literary Satire? by Reason
Available this week: "The Legend of Mitch 'Blood' Green" by Charles Farrell
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