RealClearBooks May 4, 2026 Archives

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Are Disney Adults the Happiest Debtors on Earth?

Amelia Tait The New Yorker

The Devil Wears Sponcon

Adam Nayman The Ringer

Classroom Cope

Anastasia Berg The Point’s Substack

The Try-Hard Sequel Millennials Deserve

Annie Berke The New Republic

The Corporate Thriller Lied to Us

Eileen Jones Jacobin

Elon Musk’s Plan to Save Humanity

James Kingston UnHerd

When the Confederacy Came to LA

Harmony Holiday The Paris Review

The Wrong Kind of Black Poet

Ernest Jesuyemi Compact

A Conflict of AI Visions

Sanjana Friedman City Journal

The Danger of the Literary Lament

Ross Barkan Political Currents

'The Devil Wears' Prada Is a Broken Promise

Louis Staples Harper's Bazaar

Girls Are in Crisis. Alarmism Won’t Help.

Katherine Dee The Dispatch

'Yesteryear' Fails on Its Own Terms

Jerusalem Demsas & Maibritt Henkel The Argument

On Paul Klee

Reinaldo Laddaga 4Columns

About Lana

Audrey Horne Substack

There's More To Life Than Books

Matthew Morgan The Republic of Letters

Remembering Andrew Breitbart

Brian T. Kennedy Chronicles

From Codfish Cakes to Cap’n Crunch

Bonnie S. Benwick Washington Free Beacon

Sean Fennessey On Spielberg, Simmons, and Music Writing

Frazier Tharpe GQ

The Digital Media Era Is Definitively Dead

Harry Cheadle Substack