RealClearBooks September 18, 2025 Archives

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Robert Redford Created a New Type of Hollywood Star

Brian Phillips The Ringer

What I Wanted, What I Got

Rachel Kushner The New Yorker

Your Friends Are Not in Your Phone

Mary Townsend Plough

The Rise of the Seizers

Walter Kirn Unbound

Review: Katharina Volckmer, ‘Calls May Be Recorded’

Sam Franzini Our Culture

Against the City of Noise

Justin Lee Cluny Journal

The True Threat of OpenAI

Andrew Deck The Nation

Against Literature

Manuel M. Novillo The Metropolitan Review

Large Language Muddle

The Editors n+1

The Wrath of Republican Cancel Culture

Matt Feeney UnHerd

Understanding Tyler Robinson’s Motives

Josh Code The Free Press

A Novel That Helps Explain the Manosphere

Jeremy Gordon The Atlantic

Monsters and Melancholics

Andrea Penman-Lomeli The Baffler

The Universal Economic Appeal of Charlie Kirk’s Legacy

Edward Ring AmGreatness

Tires Is The Only Comedy Show On TV

Peter James The Republic of Letters

Pledging My Love

Joe Cauley Romanticon

The Fall of the Last Mainline Seminary

Kayla Bartsch Civitas Outlook

The Faust Myth Foretells AI

Andrew Wachtel Persuasion

Tyriq Withers Is Blitzing Through Hollywood

Yang-Yi Goh GQ

Lessons from Google Search Ruling

David B. McGarry The Daily Economy

Entrepreneurship and the Spirit of Adventure

Aaron M. Renn Aaron Renn

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Chips and Slips by Compact

Available this week: "The Grand Valley" by Morgan Meis

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