RealClearBooks October 13, 2026 Archives

RealClearBooks AM Update

Stop the 'Friendslop' Games. Go Outside.

Alex Rosado RealClearBooks

What Has the NBA Lost?

Howard Beck The Ringer

Evangelizing a Post-Literate Society

Nadya Williams Law & Liberty

Anne Carson’s Roaming Imagination

Jared Marcel Pollen Engelsberg Ideas

What The Movies Make of Us: Dispatch from NYFF

Robert Rubsam Liberties

AI Won’t Kill the Artist

Ross Barkan Political Currents

Elon Musk's Daddy Issues

David Thomson UnHerd

Letters of a Literary Legend

Oliver Spivey University Bookman

Battle for the Ballot Box

Brandon Tensley The American Scholar

Yet Another Literary Prizewinner Seems to Be AI

Vauhini Vara The Atlantic

Frank O’Hara is Perfect For Introducing Poetry to Tweens

Catherine Sawoski LitHub

The Politics of the Planetary

Jonathan S. Blake & Nils Gilman The Ideas Letter

Review: War and (Uneasy) Peace

Diane Scharper America Magazine

Hybrid Threats; New Era?; Kittens

David A. Westbrook Intermittent Signal

Casablanca: A Conservative Classic

Susan Hanssen Modern Age

Climbing the Mountain of Education

David Deavel Imaginative Conservative

MacArthur Fellowship, or Minority Fellowship?

Paul du Quenoy City Journal

The Impossible Profession

Alana Pockros The Nation