RealClearBooks September 22, 2026 Archives

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Jordan Ritter Conn The Ringer

Should the Classroom Be More Like the Gym?

Dan Rockmore The New Yorker

Are McConaughey and Harrelson Really Brothers?

Anthony Breznican Esquire

Inside Howie Rose’s Final Days With the New York Mets

A.M. Gittlitz GQ

Getting Good

Harry Levov The Point Magazine

Why I Changed My Mind About AI Risk

Francis Fukuyama Persuasion

Walker Percy’s Prophetic Vision

Richard M. Reinsch II City Journal

Interview: Jonathan Franzen

Sophie McBain The Guardian

How Bad Writing Became Literary

Liza Libes Pens and Poison

The Function of the Little Magazine

Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters

The One, the Many, and the In-Between

Luke C. Sheahan Law & Liberty

How China’s Zoomers Lost Hope

Tianle Zhang UnHerd

What Happened To This Teenage Milestone?

Brooke Brandtjen The Daily Wire

The Maze of Curiosity

Caroline Langston Slant Books

From Critic to Creator

Hannah Rowan Modern Age