RealClearBooks November 4, 2026 Archives

RealClearBooks AM Update

The American Magic of Cheesecake Factory

Nora Kenney Mittiga RealClearBooks

My Fellow Republicans: The People Have Spoken

Jeff Cunningham RealClearBooks

How the NBA Became a Young Man’s Game

Kirk Goldsberry The Ringer

Riding the Rails With America's Last Train-Hoppers

Emily Topping Current Affairs

The Self-Making World

Jessica Riskin Aeon

Reckoning With Borat, 20 Years Later

Larry Fitzmaurice GQ

I Read Every Booker Prize Novel. Here’s My Winner

George Monaghan Substack

The Tell-All Memoirist Who Shied Away From Fame

Meghan Racklin New Republic

The Bears’ Ben Johnson Was Born for This

Courtney Cronin ESPN

The Demands of Love

Ron Charles Substack

Can Conservatives Go Green?

Grace Plath The American Conservative

Who is “We”?

Alexander Sorondo The Metropolitan Review

The Time Is Right for a ‘Great Books’ Revival

Joshua Bennett The Atlantic

What the Woke Canon Gets Right—and Wrong

Sam Kahn Persuasion

Can AI Save Us From the Writers?

Damir Marusic Wisdom of Crowds

The Real Reason We Hate MFAs

Thea Lim The Walrus

How 'The Craft' Became a Teen Girl Touchstone

Ariana Marsh Harper's Bazaar

Kazuo Ishiguro, Unlocked: The Butler as Metaphor

Angie Sijun Lou The Paris Review