RealClearBooks August 7, 2025 Archives

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The Banal Provocation of Sydney Sweeney’s Jeans

Doreen St. Félix The New Yorker

What’s Your Plan, Jenna Ortega?

Julianna Ress The Ringer

Contemporary Fiction and Men Who Talk Too Much

Reinaldo Laddaga Compact

Howard Stern Cancelled Himself

Ben Sixsmith The Critic

Panamerica Rides Hard for American Storytelling

Brett Puryear Pedal Steel

“Major Arcana” and Fictional Comic Book History

Tobias Carroll Zona Motel

The Cult of Carrotmaxxing

Oliver Bateman Pirate Wires

The Graham Greene Gambit

Joel Cuthbertson The Metropolitan Review

Our future is AI serfdom

B. Duncan Moench UnHerd

How the Elite Changed Its Mind on Christianity

Emma Camp Reason

The Semiotics of Girlblogging

Tess Pollok Los Angeles Review of Books

Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal Her Literary Ethos

Kathryn Sutherland LitHub

Can Our Screens Be Redeemed?

Jillian Parks Modern Age

‘Alien: Earth’ Review

Brandon Yu The Wrap

The ‘Free Speech Recession’ Is Not Over

Julian Adorney The Daily Economy

DEI Henchmen Continue to Threaten Florida’s Freedoms

Paul du Quenoy Chronicles