RealClearBooks August 21, 2026 Archives

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Brand-New Batters Are Making the Majors Look Easy

Ben Lindbergh The Ringer

The Red Sox Cannot Be Made to Make Any Sense

Louisa Thomas The New Yorker

You End Up Right Back Here

Julia M. Klein The Metropolitan Review

Inside the Carbone Crew’s Decadent Bid for World Domination

Daniel Riley GQ

Springsteen Museum’s Modest, Big-Hearted Vision

Michael Tomasky New Republic

Fractured Odysseus

Colin Dickey The American Scholar

Mellon Foundation’s Narrow Vision of the Humanities

John D. Sailer City Journal

Céline Dion Goes On

Jazmine Hughes Harper's Bazaar

Unhappy Consciousness

Ryan Ruby New Left Review

The Search for the Real-Life Lion King

Anthony Breznican Esquire

‘The End of Oak Street’ Is the Weirdest Big Movie of the Year

Sonny Bunch Bulwark

The Great Dumb-Down Is Here

Paul Sagar UnHerd

No Country for Eccentrics

Sam Buntz The Dispatch

A Novel Explanation for Woke Culture

Ian Smith Chronicles

A Day in the Life of the Working Class

Joseph Palange Front Porch Republic

The Best Dinosaur Movie In Decades

Harry Khachatrian The Daily Wire

Let’s Talk About ‘Lovers XXX’

Annakeara Stinson Los Angeles Review

Tea Is So Hot Right Now

Bettina Makalintal Eater

The Nature of Free Will in the Age Of AI

Albert Yuan Noema

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Odds & Odysseys by Compact

Available this week: "Sun Deluxe" Frederick Barthelme

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