RealClearBooks August 18, 2025 Archives

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The Peculiar Loneliness of Pickleball Singles

Jeremy S. Adams RealClearBooks

‘Americana’ Review

Peter Debruge Variety

The Small-Town Alabamians Fighting a Data Centre

Farahn Morgan UnHerd

Go Long, Young Man

Ross Barkan Political Currents

You Will Not Remember This Essay

Stephanie Yue Duhem The Metropolitan Review

Our Golden Age of Reading (Online)

Angelina Eimannsberger Public Books

Our Minds Are No Longer Ours

Matthew Gasda Café Américain

A Settlement to a Problem That Does Not Admit a Solution

David DesRosiers JNS

Is Cormac McCarthy “Based”?

Matt McManus Jacobin

The Education of David Mamet

Emina Melonic Civitas Outlook

Christopher Rufo vs. The New Yorker

Meghan Daum The Unspeakable

England’s Last Band Standing

Dominic Green Washington Free Beacon

A Nuclear Revival on the Old Frontier

Julia Steinberg Arena Magazine

Wrestle, Wrestle

Robert Rubsam Commonweal

A Eulogy for Dial-Up

Visakan Veerasamy Pirate Wires

The "1619 Project", Six Years On

Phillip W. Magness The Freeman

Tattoos Are Virtuous

Kristina Tabor Saccone Wisdom of Crowds

On Some Contemporary Dutch Stories

Nate West Substack

AI Is Capturing Interiority

Daniel Barcay Persuasion

James Baldwin Was Not Your Figurehead

Freddie deBoer Substack

How Metamodernism Can Save Us All

Thaddeus Thomas The Republic of Letters

The Rizz Kid

Daniel J. Flynn NYPost

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: The Harms of the Digital Age by Persuasion

Available this week: "Nightswimming" by Melanie Anagnos

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