RealClearBooks October 23, 2026 Archives

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Manhattan Wanted Manners. The Kids Wanted to Skate.

Jeff Cunningham RCBooks

Wikipedia’s Pyrrhic Victory

Julian Lucas The New Yorker

Pat Murphy’s Brewers Ended the Dodgers’ Dynasty

Kevin Kernan WSJ Free Expression

Chatbots Are Lousy Writers. So Are a Lot of Writers

Jason Guriel The Walrus

Why Evangelicalism Is Winning

Ross Douthat The Free Press

The Style Is Father of the Man

Benjamin Kunkel Harper's

Good Things Take a Long Time

Greta Rainbow Dirt

It’s All in Your Head

Bonnie Friedman The American Scholar

'Lincoln in the Bardo' and Our Stagnant Culture

Lee Oser Civitas Outlook

Three Cheers for the Omniculture

Michael Lind UnHerd

The Strange Power of 'You Can See Everything'

Eileen Jones Jacobin

‘Ali G: Who Iz I?’ Review

Owen Gleiberman Variety

The Eastern Conference Is Back, Baby

Frazier Tharpe GQ

How a 1959 Classic Is More Relevant Today Than ‘Digger’

Mark Judge Chronicles

Other People

Elizabeth Oldfield Aeon

The Explosion in Men’s Jewelry That Is Breaking the Rules

Matt Jacobson Esquire

Endlessly Reproducible Originality

Zachary Smolar Los Angeles Review of Books

A World Without Stories

Rachel Lu Law & Liberty