RealClearBooks July 28, 2026 Archives

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How Hulk Hogan’s Heel Turn Changed Everything

David Shoemaker The Ringer

How Bots Took Over Our Lives

T.M. Brown The New Yorker

Inside Eve Babitz’s Private Letters

Steve Wasserman Los Angeles Times

Big Tech’s War on Human Achievement

Gregory Conti Compact

Why Does Everything Feel So Joyless?

Michèle Mendelssohn & Charlie Tyson Guardian

Escapist fictions

Naomi Kanakia Woman of Letters

Nancy Lemann's South

Aaron Lake Smith The Republic of Letters

The Ancient Epic That Explains America

Patrick Deneen The Daily Wire

The Noonday Devil

Valerie Stivers Portico

Book Club: Jeff Weiss’s Waiting for Britney Spears

Pranav Trewn POW Magazine

Impale and Cry

Christian Lorentzen The Nation

When Romantics Remake the World

Justin D. Garrison Modern Age

The Movie Industry Is Broken

Peachy Keenan The Spectator

‘The Odyssey’ and Hollywood’s New ‘Receptive Men’

Mark Judge Chronicles

‘The Capitol’ Review: A Republic Under Construction

Tevi Troy Wall Street Journal

Everyone Hates Journalists, Maybe for Good Reason

Harry Cheadle Substack

The Ordinary Sublime of the American Diner

Henry Oliver The Common Reader

An Uncomplicated Man

Emily Wilson London Review of Books

The 30 Greatest Superhero Movies of All Time

Eric Francisco Esquire

There’s No Place Like Home

Eric Adler Law & Liberty

Should We Be Scared of Sharks?

Nicole James The Freeman

Billion-Dollar Industry That’s Keeping Your Beer Cold

Lauren Larson Texas Monthly

Planned Man's Links of the Day

Podcast: Peace in Our Time by Compact

Available this week: "Sun Deluxe" Frederick Barthelme

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