RealClearBooks November 13, 2025 Archives

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David Byrne’s Career of Earnest Alienation

Amanda Petrusich The New Yorker

Billy Bob Thornton Is at Peace

Ryan D'Agostino Esquire

An Interview With Tao Lin

Tao Lin The Republic of Letters

Confronting Nietzsche

Donald J. Devine Modern Age

The College Kids Who Can’t Do Basic Math

Tanner Nau The Free Press

Man’s Best Friend

Jonathan Lethem The Nation

What Happened to Effective Altruism?

Kate Mabus The New Republic

Alex Karp Goes to War

Steven Levy Wired

The 100 Must-Read Books of 2025

Staff Time

Gen Z’s War Against Leggings

Alex Abad-Santos Vox

How Greta Gerwig Taught Noah Baumbach How to Have Fun

Zach Baron GQ

The San Francisco School Sacrificed to Equity

Leighton Woodhouse UnHerd

Thou Shalt Not Judge

Christopher Gage Oxford Sour

From Cover to Cover

Mark Judge The New Criterion

Fringe-Facing Figures Will Doom the Right

Oren Cass Commonplace