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Shuffling into our booth, Gracie Sinclair marvels at the drink menu with her big, green, Betty Boop eyes. “Question: Is that a happy... Read More

ON THE ONE HAND, I know that no one has the answers to the questions we face in a warming world. On the other hand, I read M. D.... Read More

Last week, comedians Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, hosts of the popular podcast Las Culturistas, were accused of perpetuating racism... Read More

Goose bumps light up my body. Skin nerve cells fire signals directly to my brain, bypassing the analytical mind. The hypothalamus dumps the... Read More

Dilbert taught me how to read. Stacked perilously high – between Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side – in my... Read More

I had hoped that 2026 would prove calmer than 2025, a hope that was quickly disabused. We’re bombing Venezuela! Shooting women in the... Read More

I have a bias against cool New York-based magazines. I generally associate them with chic radical politics and meaningless academic... Read More

The family at the center of Madeline Cash’s first novel, Lost Lambs, is falling apart. Bud and Catherine Flynn have begun a... Read More

On February 11, 2026, at The Breakers in Palm Beach, Florida, RealClear will be celebrating its 25th anniversary year – just as... Read More

Madeline Cash’s wicked sense of humor is on full display in “Our Lady of Suffering’s Inner Beauty Pageant,”... Read More

Loose talk recently emitted by powerful people about the possibility of exploding nuclear weapons again naturally made me recall Beat poet... Read More

Scott Adams, the cartoonist who gave the world “Dilbert,” passed away Tuesday after a valiant public... Read More

It’s hard to write on a construction site. Hard, but not impossible. Keep the notepad close to your chest, and you can jot down a... Read More

Lost Lambs is a stunning first novel, wondrously comic, propelled by absurdist wordplay and a deep knowledge of today’s over... Read More

One of the great animating forces in the American psyche is self-delusion. Maybe it’s something we pick up because others wear it well,... Read More

First published in the spring of 1994, two months before the birth of Amazon and one month after the death of Kurt Cobain, Bird by Bird by... Read More

The instrumental theme of “Playing in the Band” consists of four notes, played in dueling harmony by the Grateful Dead’s... Read More

On February 11th, RealClear will host its third annual Samizdat Prize Gala at The Breakers in beautiful Palm Beach, Florida. The Samizdat... Read More

Much of contemporary discourse about China remains trapped in what might be called an all-consuming Trump vortex, where nearly everything is... Read More

The School of Night, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s latest novel published in English, translated by Martin Aitken, is the fourth volume in a... Read More

The year is 1983. At 8pm sharp on 28 February, 106 million viewers tune in to watch the M*A*S*H finale. The next day, everyone from... Read More

Here’s a proposition for you: the American vernacular that emerged between roughly 1920 and 1970 was the second great peak of the... Read More

Late last year, the architects of California’s “Billionaire Wealth Tax” ballot proposition quietly amended language in... Read More

When leafing through the newspapers, I mentally tally each story involving a man hauled before the courts, charged with what editors... Read More

The classic film, Doctor Zhivago (1965), offers a cautionary tale about what happens when collectivism threatens and confiscates private... Read More

Are mobile phones bad? Or what? This is a question many leading thinkers are currently thinking about. In an effort to answer it, let’s... Read More

Although it might be hard to believe these days, there was a time when atheism was cool. Twenty years ago, a squad of public intellectuals... Read More

As any good authoritarian knows, the march to fascism requires capturing the courts, the media, and the schools. History and social studies... Read More