RealClearBooks July 29, 2026 Archives

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Johnny Knoxville, America’s God of Mischief

Molly Young The New Yorker

The Art of Ending Well

Tyler Parker The Ringer

Gore Vidal’s Strange, Eventful United States

Michael Preedy The Metropolitan Review

In the Grip of Politics

Greg Afinogenov n+1

Welcome to Secular Sharia

River Page The Free Press

No, Remote Work Is Not Making Us Miserable

Elizabeth Nolan Brown Reason

Will the Cinema God Forgive Nolan?

David Thomson UnHerd

What Being a Digital Nomad Taught Me

Sam Kahn Persuasion

Hot and Bothered

Ron Charles Substack

An Echo, a Movement

Melissa Chan Los Angeles Review of Books

Why We Love to Hate Tradwives

Heidi Schlumpf Commonweal

Chesterton Prescribes Sanity

Nora Kenney Mittiga Word on Fire

The Odyssey for the Postliterate Age

Nadya Williams Providence

Revolutionary Shame

Elaine L. Wang Kismet

Christopher Nolan’s Un-Greek Odyssey

Jeffrey Polet Acton Institute

Flight Forward: On César Aira’s “Five”

Jamin Stortz Chicago Review of Books

Yacht Rockin’ to the Radio

Mary Julia Koch WSJ Free Expression

‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Review

David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Peace in Our Time by Compact

Available this week: "Sun Deluxe" Frederick Barthelme

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