RealClearBooks February 12, 2026 Archives

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Why Do We Like Music?
Shayla Love The New Yorker
John Oliver Keeps Pushing the Rock Up the Hill
Alan Siegel The Ringer
How Bad Bunny Mogged George Bush
Germán S. Díaz del Castillo First Things
Get Married Young
Brad Wilcox Compact
On the Clock
Lora Kelley Kismet
Selling the Sex Recession
Magdalene J. Taylor Many Such Cases
Thomas Pynchon’s America
Benjamin Kunkel The Nation
Olympics Should Stop Pretending to Be What They’re Not
Ilya Shapiro City Journal
Wild Facts
Robert Rubsam The Baffler
Hard Boiled
Lizzy Harding Bookforum
Can We Escape AI Slavery?
Yanis Varoufakis UnHerd
We Were a Breaking News Team
Bart Schaneman The Republic of Letters
At the Winter Olympics With George Clooney
Michael Sebastian Esquire
Planned Man's Links of the Day
Podcast: The Mandarins, Their Virtues and Vices by Eminent Americans
Available this week: "Writer's Diary" by Matthew Gasda
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