RealClearBooks May 19, 2025 Archives

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What Were We Thinking?

James B. Meigs City Journal

How the Thunder Became More Than Just Noise

Michael Pina The Ringer

We Don’t Have Any Reserves

Adam Morgan Los Angeles Review of Books

Conservatives—& Everyone Else—Should Read Novels

Christopher J. Scalia Dispatch

The Night Britney Premiered “Toxic” In Vegas

Jeff Weiss GQ

Performance Art

Lovia Gyarkye The Nation

United We Fall

Jonny Thakkar The Point

Form and Problem-Solving

Jack Rockwell Cleveland Review of Books

City on the Edge

Stephen Pimentel IM—1776

How To Age Disgracefully

Christopher Gage Oxford Sour

The American Pope

Emile Doak Commonplace

Why Are We Mad at the Football Coach’s Girlfriend?

Constance Grady Vox

What Is the Sexual Wellness Industry Trying to Tell Us?

Magdalene Taylor Substack

Wasting Away in Wind-and-Solarville

James Varney Real Clear Investigations

Wes Anderson on the Darkness at the Heart of His Films

Bilge Ebiri Vulture

Vanishing Male Writers: What The Data Shows

Michael Mohr The Republic of Letters

The Pathological Ironist

Robbie Millen Air Mail

The Anti-Tech Canon: 30 Books

Ted Gioia The Honest Broker

What Makes a Pope a Man?

Tom Sarrouf Jr. Modern Age