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How much do you have to suffer to be a great athlete? Do you have to suffer like Johnny Unitas, the great quarterback of the 1960s, who was... Read More

Last month, Pope Leo XIV presented the papal encyclical Magnifica humanitas, laying out the Catholic Church’s definitive response to... Read More

RealClear is vacationing in London this June, and we invite you to join us. When? June 23-25. Read More

“His stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree…” — Bob Dylan on John... Read More

In 1986, Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) contended: “America, with its vast space … is the only remaining primitive... Read More

It would be tempting to put Naomi Kanakia’s new book on the crowded shelf of recent works that have sought to defend the importance of... Read More

We live in an unprecedented moment for booksmaxxing. I don’t know how I could otherwise make my way through authors like Hannah Arendt... Read More

Anthropic is regarded as a giant among AI companies, but perhaps what it really excels in is anthropomorphism. Earlier this year, the company... Read More

1. One of the loveliest documented moments of the 1966 Newport Folk Festival features Bukka White and Howlin’ Wolf in a rare improvised... Read More

In my obituary for the great Peruvian novelist Mario Vargas Llosa, who died last year, I cited Fredric Jameson’s controversial 1986... Read More

You cannot bring a phone into the surprise Phoebe Bridgers show on June 4 at Madison Square Garden. You cannot bring digital recorders,... Read More

Mark Helprin’s Elegy in Blue is witty, wise, and funny. Read More

I have never met Harvey Mansfield, the distinguished scholar and Harvard University Professor of Government, Emeritus, but he strikes me as... Read More

When Mallory received her first “school supplies” email, she was thrilled. As a kid, she loved the trip to the store for pencils,... Read More

Imagine, if you will, the worst possible teenager, like the teenager from hell. Read More

Because Rafael Nadal has been a beloved and respected icon of tennis for so many years now, part of the pantheon of the sport, it’s... Read More

When OpenAI released ChatGPT in late 2022, it quickly broke records as the fastest growing technology product in history. AI model providers... Read More

I write this from the hospital—where my third child has just been born safe and sound—to give a secular and scientific read of... Read More

A while back I taught an undergraduate course, at intervals over a ten-year period, in “literary journalism,” which I got to... Read More

Almost every mainstream media figure had the same take on this week’s CBS News staff revolt against the new management named to run 60... Read More

Jason Scharf, 44, isn’t your typical 21st-century parent. In an age of iPad babies, he’s “dropped the hammer” on... Read More

“Have you seen the indoor pool?” Matt Starr asks. The founder of Dream Baby Press, Starr made a name for himself via Perverted... Read More

My wife makes fun of how easily I cry. She’s more stoic than I could ever be and thinks it’s especially funny how... Read More

The most audacious media spectacle in recent memory was hatched on the floor of Madison Square Garden, less than two weeks after the 2024... Read More

DEFINING TECH WORKERS in sociopolitical terms can be tricky. Robert Dorschel devotes the first half of his compendious study The Social Codes... Read More

Military life has long served as reliable fodder for American literature, which should come as no surprise: something about stories of men... Read More

Whenever someone like Candace Owens or Nick Fuentes posts “ragebait,” it’s not difficult to predict how my friends will... Read More

It’s often observed that horror films are a good barometer of pressing cultural anxieties. If so, the weather doesn’t look very... Read More

Nearly a century ago in a nondescript facility in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, an engineer with the unlikely name of... Read More

"America needs more jobs, and it needs them now.”  Read More

“Ever look around and wonder if we deserve all this?” a woman asks, standing by their sprawling mansion’s swimming pool... Read More

Harold Bloom wrote and edited so many books that it’s hard to imagine how he found the time between them to write letters. Yet write... Read More

“When he has lost all hope, all object in life, man often becomes a monster in his misery,” wrote Dostoyevsky in The House of the... Read More

Given J.R.R. Tolkien’s self-evident greatness (and the millions of copies his novels have sold), it is perhaps little surprise that... Read More

Love, the pop star at the center of Candice Wuehle’s second novel, Ultranatural, feels familiar, like the idol we’ve all known... Read More

Ann Patchett’s new novel, Whistler, is that loveliest of summer gifts, a story of reconciliation, of old affections renewed, of a... Read More