RealClearBooks April 16, 2026 Archives

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TMZ Gets Political

Paula Mejia The New Yorker

Aryna Sabalenka Is Trying to Mellow Out

Michael Sebastian Esquire

What Should Smart People Think About UFOs?

Will Rahn The Free Press

Gay Talese on a Writer’s Life

Charles McElwee RealClearPolitics

I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America

Caity Weaver The Atlantic

Tree of Life

Judson Vail The Oxford American

Bad Noise: The Art of the Walk-Up Song

Matthew Ritchie POW Magazine

Redshift

Elena Saavedra Buckley Harper's

The Good, the Awful, the Non-Art

Brian T. Allen The National Review

On Hachette's Internal Use of AI

Mesha Maren Zona Motel

Iris Murdoch & the Metaphysics of the Good

Matthew B. Crawford Hedghehog Review

Sam Altman Is the Leading Man in This AI-Anxious World

Lily Isaacs The Observer

Humor Is a Practice: An Interview with Chris Duffy

Andrew Boryga Dwell

Snoopy Memes

Ben Firke Dirt

Touch Me Not

JLG Noga Romanticon

The Work of Post-Literate Religious Revivals

Oliver Bateman Substack

Welcome to Online Censorship 2.0

John Rosenthal The American Mind

The Incels Are Taking Over

Seva Gunitsky Persuasion

The Era of the Bookish Influencer

Markiel Magsalin Vogue

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Kanye or Nay? by Compact

Available this week: "Rage and the Republic" by Jonathan Turley

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