RealClearBooks Week of April 14, 2025 Archives

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Monday, April 14
The Face of the Devastated Sports Fan
Hanif Abdurraqib The New Yorker
‘Black Mirror’ Is a Series at War With Itself
Jake Kleinman The Ringer
How Universities Can Save Themselves
Nils Gilman Persuasion
Gatsby's America
Alexander Raubo IM—1776
Beware San Fran’s Rationalist Cult
Matthew Gasda UnHerd
The Muscular Humanities
Ross Barkan Political Currents
Is the Dire Wolf Truly Back from the Dead?
Johanna Berkman The Free Press
Amusing Ourselves to Debt
August Lamm Cluny Journal
Looking for Purpose in Thailand
Luis Parrales The Dispatch
Private Predicaments and Natural Disasters
Thomas Beller Air Mail
The Surprising History of the Ideology of Choice
Andrew Lanham The New Republic
Bill Gates Version 1.0
Ian Haworth Washington Free Beacon
Fighting the Ideological Lie
Daniel J. Mahoney The American Mind
But Is It Really a Dire Wolf?
Blake Dodge Pirate Wires
The Man Behind the Man Who Broke MLB's Color Barrier
Lee Habeeb Newsweek
A Full and Empty World
Auguste Meyrat The Catholic Thing
Peter Baker & Susan Glasser's Excellent 'Kremlin Rising'
John Tamny RCMarkets
Did Douglas Murray Break Joe Rogan?
Cockburn Spectator World


Tuesday, April 15
Can Everyone Be Religious?
Elizabeth Grace Matthew RealClearBooks
Can Reality TV Redeem Jake and Logan Paul?
Naomi Fry The New Yorker
Submitting to Cubicle Culture
Joseph Holmes Law & Liberty
The Men Cashing in on Romantasy
Decca Muldowney The Verge
Lauren Sánchez’s Cosmic Bachelorette Party
Suzy Weiss The Free Press
Is This the Dominant Personality Type of Our Time?
Ted Gioia The Honest Broker
Indie, Please
Ross Barkan The Metropolitan Review
The Work of Reindustrialization
Oliver Bateman Oliver Bateman Does the Work
Fashionable Nonsense
Leif Weatherby The Baffler
There’s Still More to Learn About Anne Frank
Daphne Merkin The New Republic
Do the Clothes Make the Marriage?
Jennifer May Reiland Substack
The Edge Lords
Lee Smith Tablet
Farewell to the Last Writer of the Latin American Boom
Dwight Garner NYTimes
Domestic, Not Domesticated
Emily Hancock Alata Magazine
Brian Tyree Henry Has Been Doing the Work
Julian Kimble The Ringer
Imagining the Divine Drama this Holy Week
David P. Deavel AMAC
The Great Spring 2025 Book Preview
Editor The Millions
The Wonder of Charles Schulz
Alex Rosado Athwart
An Overdue Course Correction
Fred Bauer Commonplace
Going Fossil-Fuel-Free
Gary Abernathy Empowering America
Revisiting Vassar Miller’s Poetry
Peggy Rosenthal Slant Books


Wednesday, April 16
How to Finally Divorce Your Toxic Sports Team
Tom Lamont GQ
The Unusual Life of Quarterback Caleb Williams
Brian O'Keefe Esquire
Will There Ever Be Another “Great Gatsby”?
Mark Chiusano The Nation
Diagnosing the Ideological Mind
Theodore Dalrymple Law & Liberty
Jackie Robinson Would Be Appalled
Lex Pryor The Ringer
How Robert Crumb Channeled Mid-Century Teenage Angst
Dan Nadel LitHub
The Great Neoliberal Novelist
Geoff Shullenberger Compact
The World Porn Made
Sophie Gilbert The Atlantic
The Voice of America Falls Silent
Jacob Mchangama Persuasion
The Return of High Fashion
Isabella Redjai IM—1776
Climate Crisis as Divine Comedy
Hannah Rowan Modern Age
Bon Iver Exits the Woods
Craig Jenkins Vulture
The Romance of C.S. Lewis
Alister McGrath Acton Institute
Inside the Liberal Mind
John C. Goodman The Daily Economy
Reading Motherhood
Katie Bennett Zona Motel
Matthew Rhys Gets Personal
Julia Llewellyn Smith Air Mail
Marcy Dermansky Is In Your Head
Staff Language Arts
How California Went from Golden State to Crisis State
Maggie Miller RCI
How Record Store Day Became The Stupidest Day In Music
John Semley Defector


Thursday, April 17
How the WWE Stopped Being Great Again
Oliver Bateman RealClearBooks
The Inside Story of Shedeur Sanders’ Unique Draft Process
Kalyn Kahler ESPN
‘Woke’ Was Invented by Angry Schoolgirls on Tumblr
Ella Dorn Spectator World
Singular View
G.S. Hans Alta Online
So Unnaturally Slow
Matthew K. Ritchie Los Angeles Review of Books
Sugar-pilled
Ash Carter Substack
Hollywood At Risk
Borys Kit & Katie Kilkenny Hollywood Reporter
Chuck and Buck
Mo Diggs default.blog
The Making of the Buru Quartet
Joel Whitney The Believer
Nepobabies Revisited: An Apologia
Stephen G. Adubato Arcade Publishing
How to Think in the Age of AI
David Edmonds The New Statesman
Diary of a Fragrance Diplomat
Em Seely-Katz Dirt
How Covid Lies Destroyed Kids’ Lives
David Zweig The Free Press
Scholars Have Lost the Plot!
Milan Terlunen Public Books
The Radical Lord of Light Entertainment
John Banville The Guardian
Leaving No Child Behind
Emile Doak Commonplace


Friday, April 18
The Cell
Andrew Fowler RealClearBooks
Richard Bernstein Warned Us About DEI
Daniel Shuchman City Journal
After Forty Years, Phish Isn’t Seeking Resolution
Amanda Petrusich The New Yorker
Tiki’s Tide Crests Again
Michael Warren The Dispatch
In the Matter of the Commas
Matthew Zipf The American Scholar
A Forgotten Master of Pulp Fiction
Sam Kashner Air Mail
Roman Reigns’s Quest to Be WWE’s Next Crossover Star
Tom Kludt Vanity Fair
The Best Christopher Nolan Movies, Definitively Ranked
Jesse Hassenger GQ
The Mystery of a Missing Climber
Ryan Hockensmith ESPN
In Space, No One Can Hear You Girlboss
Vrinda Jagota Pitchfork
What 'Adolescence' Gets Wrong
Ari David Blaff Quillette
David Cronenberg, Transformed
John Semley The Nation
The Civis in Civic Architecture
Paul Zepeda Civitas Institute
The New Rules of Podcasting Are Making Us Dumber
Konstantin Kisin Free Press
The Third Humbling of Humanity
Yascha Mounk Substack
Multiplication, Biden-Style
James Varney RealClearInvestigations
Harvard is Turning Away Teenage Geniuses
Blake Dodge Pirate Wires
Jazz Musicians Should Welcome Trump
Mark Judge Chronicles
Women Who Conquered the Air
Melanie Anagnos Substack
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: Compact Podcast by Compact
Available this week: "The Legend of Mitch 'Blood' Green" by Charles Farrell
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