RealClearBooks June 24, 2025 Archives

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Feast of Reason and Flow of Soul

John J. Waters RealClearBooks

How the Cost of Youth Sports Is Changing the N.B.A.

Jay Caspian Kang New Yorker

Kevin Durant and the Diminishing Value of Older Athletes

Will Leitch NYMag

Catherine Lacey’s Disappointing Fusion

Lily Meyer The New Republic

This Isn’t the Thunder’s Moment—It’s Their Era

Howard Beck The Ringer

Innovation and Repetition

René Girard Cluny Journal

Alternative Entertainment

Michael Warren Washington Free Beacon

Against Optimization

John Warner Substack

Annie Ernaux Fixed My Disintegrating Attention Span

Celine Nguyen Personal Canon

The Cultural Decline of Literary Fiction

Owen Yingling Substack

Blasphemy Laws by a Different Name

Max Klinger Persuasion

Where American Literature Went Vuong

The Literarian Gazette Substack

Sex & the City Exemplifies Late 20th-Century Feminist Despair

Alice Bolin LitHub

Engaging With Culture Is the Future of Conservative Media

Mark Judge Chronicles

What Can Right-Wing Authors Do?

Emily Schroeder The Critic

Alison Bechdel’s Next Step

Jillian Steinhauer The Nation