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It’s around 200 CE, in Ephesus, an Aegean city of Greek roots, now a major hub of the Roman Empire. Meandering down marble-paved Curetes Street, a dweller is lost in the bustle of the town, procuring produce and wares in shops tucked beneath the colonnades, attending the public baths – even a conveniently …The story begins at King’s Cross Station, where the narrator, Khaled, sees off his friend Hosam Zawa, who is moving to Northern California. They are both Libyan expats who left as teenagers; theirs is a twenty-one-year-old friendship, from youth to middle age, that began in Paris and continued in London. Khaled is a teacher, Hosam a former ... The Ringer. On paper, Dave Robinson doesn’t seem like the type of guy who’d be devoted to something as decidedly un–rock ’n’ roll as market research. In the 1960s, the Irish-born music lover photographed the Beatles at the Cavern Club and tour-managed the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In the 1970s, he cofounded Stiff Records, the ... By Mark Eckel. June 01, 2023. The following is a condensed version of "Taylor Sheridan's Fallen World" by Mark Eckel, published at Law & Liberty . Each 21st century Taylor Sheridan hero fights for ideals in reality’s gray landscape. Sicario offers a hard look at the drug trade, questioning whether a man can be a hero when he himself does ...Paul Auster on Cancer, Connection and Closure. Early in Paul Auster’s latest novel, Baumgartner, his eponymous lead character is speaking to a grief counsellor in the immediate aftermath of losing his wife in a freakishly violent swimming accident. “Anything can happen to us at any moment,” he tells her.In comes R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface, a novel about a white author who feels insecure over Asian women and tries to be one. The narrator, novelist June Hayward, is a liberal white woman, the likes of which dominate the literary world. However, she is unsuccessful in the industry, unlike her best friend, acclaimed author and Kuang’s self …Who Decides What Words Mean? Lane Greene Aeon December 10, 2018. Pixabay. Decades before the rise of social media, polarisation plagued discussions about language. By and large, it still does. Everyone who cares about the topic is officially required to take one of two stances. Either you smugly preen about the mistakes you find …The Allure of Bigfoot. John O’Connor’s The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster is a work of mourning. Bigfoot, as O’Connor, a journalism professor, illustrates, is thriving—if by “Bigfoot” we’re talking about the legend of Sasquatch and the communities that have sprung up to seek out the hairy ... RealClearBooks (RCB) is the book news, book review, and publishing industry aggregator for RealClear Media Group. RealClearBooks provides a daily reference point to help readers take in the world of books, the changing nature of publishing, and the latest industry issues and controversies that attach themselves to the written word. Aug 31, 2023 · By Daniel J. Mahoney. August 31, 2023. Editor's Note: RealClearBooks is delighted to publish Daniel J. Mahoney 's "Foreword" to Between Two Millstones: Book 2, Exile in America, 1978-1994, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's compelling account of his final sixteen years of exile in the United States. The book is newly available in paperback. How Nikola Jokić Became the Best Basketball Player. In June, as the last seconds of the N.B.A. Finals ticked off the clock and the victorious Denver Nuggets began to celebrate, the team’s star, Nikola Jokić, stood by himself. He shook hands with members of the defeated Miami Heat, pulling them close, cradling their heads with his enormous ...When her accounts are frustratingly off, it’s a letdown for those of us who enjoy them at their best. Oyler’s new book of essays, No Judgment, follows on from her first novel, Fake Accounts, about (loosely) perceptions of people on the internet. In No Judgment, Oyler again focuses intensely on these perceptions, and on how we respond to them.The NFL Has Entered Its WAG Era. Nora Princiotti The Ringer February 9, 2024. FR34145 AP. It starts with a high five. Then two backward fives. Hip check— woo! —lean back, snap. Twin sprays of blond are tossed over shoulders, red-stained lips part in cheers, and the not-so-secret handshake is complete. Touchdown! Book of the Week: 'The Case for Trump'. By: The Editors. Victor Davis Hanson examines the Trump Presidency through a classical lens, casting the Donald as a tragic hero straight out of Sophocles: a narcissistic savior whose mercurial personality is both the source of his power and, perhaps, his downfall. Hanson is among the most formidable of ... Look What Taylor Made Us Do. Tyler Foggatt The New Yorker June 5, 2023. AP. There was a moment, about twenty-five minutes into Taylor Swift’s first Eras Tour show, in Glendale, Arizona, when fans began to realize that the concert was much grander than they had anticipated. In the lead-up to opening night, there had been a lot of speculation ...Mystical Realism. Sometimes the Swedish Academy actually gets the Nobel Prize in Literature right, as it did this year when it gave the award to Jon Fosse. The Norwegian playwright and novelist doesn’t represent any particular identity or ideology: he is an introverted writer from rural western Norway who likes hiking in the forest and ...Historical writing continues to shed new and interesting light on all manner of topics, including even much-written about subjects like Napoleon, who died 200 years ago this year. Paul Lay, the eRedemption Songs. On paper, Dave Robinson doesn’t seem like the type of guy who’d be devoted to something as decidedly un–rock ’n’ roll as market research. In the 1960s, the Irish-born music lover photographed the Beatles at the Cavern Club and tour-managed the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In the 1970s, he cofounded Stiff Records, the ...The story begins at King’s Cross Station, where the narrator, Khaled, sees off his friend Hosam Zawa, who is moving to Northern California. They are both Libyan expats who left as teenagers; theirs is a twenty-one-year-old friendship, from youth to middle age, that began in Paris and continued in London. Khaled is a teacher, Hosam a former ... RealClearBooks List. In Search of Lost Books by Giorgio van Straten; Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts; Infinite Baseball by Alva Noë; Twelve Against the Gods by William Bolitho; Alienated America by Timothy P. Carney; The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor Roper; How to Disappear by Akiko Busch The Hero Gen Z Needs. Snoopy was everywhere when I was growing up, in the early 2000s. On TV, the cartoon beagle appeared as a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and starred in the holiday specials my family watched; in real life, his statues were all over Saint Paul, Minnesota, a hometown I share with the Peanuts creator …The Coddling of the American Undergraduate. When I was a graduate teaching assistant at Harvard University a decade ago, one of my students missed a final exam because he forgot to set his alarm. I didn’t learn about this because he told me, in person or even by email; nor did he apologize for his oversight or ask if he could make up the exam.January 12, 2024. The following is a condensed version of "When Truth Is Lost in Translation" by Roy Mathews, published at Law & Liberty. Narratives concerning the marginalized have come to dominate American institutions and popular culture. The plight of a plethora of minorities is regularly alluded to, from Justice Jackson’s allusions to ...The following is a condensed version of "Culture Forms Our Common Life" by David C. Rose, published at Law & Liberty.In 1993 Douglass North won the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in economic history. He stressed the importance of institutions—regularized patterns of behavior—for improving our understanding of how societies evolve and function.The story begins at King’s Cross Station, where the narrator, Khaled, sees off his friend Hosam Zawa, who is moving to Northern California. They are both Libyan expats who left as teenagers; theirs is a twenty-one-year-old friendship, from youth to middle age, that began in Paris and continued in London. Khaled is a teacher, Hosam a former ...This week’s book is Michael Anton's 'After the Flight 93 Election: The Vote that Saved America and What We Still Have to Lose', just published by Encounter Books. In September of 2016, a short essay appeared in the Claremont Review of Books that laid out, in apocalyptic terms, the binary choice facing conservatives at the home stretch of our ...The following review is part of RealClear Books and Culture's symposium on Patrick Deneen's 'Regime Change.'. A hundred years from today imagine the United States looks something like this: to accommodate a growing population, the lower chamber expands to some 1000 elected representatives and our electoral process switches from a …It’s been really interesting developing my macro-perspective in writing this book. Clinton, Bush, and Obama each won consecutive terms and that was an aberration dating back to Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. Go to the 1860s up to the 1880s and there was a rocky period with a lot of shake-ups. The Ringer. On paper, Dave Robinson doesn’t seem like the type of guy who’d be devoted to something as decidedly un–rock ’n’ roll as market research. In the 1960s, the Irish-born music lover photographed the Beatles at the Cavern Club and tour-managed the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In the 1970s, he cofounded Stiff Records, the ... RealClearBooks organized a symposium on Tony Woodlief's new book, The Pragmatic American by Tony Woodlief, Executive Vice President at State Policy Network. The American People Must Relocate Power to the States by Richard M. Reinsch, II, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Politics Should be Contentious by Glenn Ellmers, …Auguste Meyrat RealClearBooks January 25, 2024. Aryan Athalye. There are few periods in history that are as unique as Feudal Japan (also known as the Edo period) from the early 17th century to the Meiji Revolution in the late 19th century. Unlike other non-western countries that were colonized by European powers and converted to …The Coddling of the American Undergraduate. When I was a graduate teaching assistant at Harvard University a decade ago, one of my students missed a final exam because he forgot to set his alarm. I didn’t learn about this because he told me, in person or even by email; nor did he apologize for his oversight or ask if he could make up the exam.The Truth About Banned Books. James Fishback The Free Press January 19, 2024. Iñaki del Olmo. Over the last couple years, the media have peddled a narrative of “book bans” sweeping the nation. Book bans (ostensibly by the right) are “eating away at democracy,” according to The Guardian, and are “taking an emotional toll,” warned CNN.Reviews: Scott Segrest, National Review: R obert Curry’s Reclaiming Common Sense: Finding Truth in a Post-Truth World is a companion volume to his earlier Common Sense Nation.Both books are apologias, defenses against certain attacks by our intellectual and cultural elites on the foundations of American life, which the American …When her accounts are frustratingly off, it’s a letdown for those of us who enjoy them at their best. Oyler’s new book of essays, No Judgment, follows on from her first novel, Fake Accounts, about (loosely) perceptions of people on the internet. In No Judgment, Oyler again focuses intensely on these perceptions, and on how we respond to them.RealClearBooks: Can 'We the People' Be Trusted? Law & Liberty: The Lost World of Statesmanship American Mind: Burke in America New Criterion: The Right Targets Law …Feb 8, 2024 · The Second Death of Pablo Neruda. It may come as no surprise that a country as deeply polarized by its recent history as Chile is also at war over the relevance of its preëminent poet, Pablo Neruda. In December, fifty years after the coup d’état that brought General Augusto Pinochet to power, Chileans rejected an attempt to write a new ... Jul 13, 2022 · He candidly points out Tocqueville’s infidelity, Churchill’s blunders while in public office – which include continuing the military operation in Gallipoli after March 1915, the disastrous Norwegian campaign of 1940, and his decision to remain prime minister after his 1953 stroke – and Havel’s affairs and eccentricities. He candidly points out Tocqueville’s infidelity, Churchill’s blunders while in public office – which include continuing the military operation in Gallipoli after March 1915, the disastrous Norwegian campaign of 1940, and his decision to remain prime minister after his 1953 stroke – and Havel’s affairs and eccentricities.No, Aliens Haven’t Visited the Earth. Nicholson Baker Intelligencer February 1, 2024. Albert Antony. There has never been a worse time to be a UFO skeptic. Last month, Sean Kirkpatrick, the head of the Pentagon office responsible for investigating unexplained aerial events, stepped down. He said he was tired of being harassed and accused of ...The 2024 NFL Quarterback Commitment Index. Danny Heifetz The Ringer. Previous Month (January 2024) February 2024 Next Month (March 2024) Su. Mo. Tu. We. Th. Fr.The cacophony of the Internet has been distracting from proper intellectual discussion for quite some time now. Over time, it has added clashes of ideological cymbals and symbols, signifying not much other than anger, destruction, and despair.The fact that Americans are divided has become a forgone conclusion.RealClearBooks Week of January 8, 2024 Archives | RealClearBooks. Subscribe. Sign In | Subscribe Ad-Free. RealClearBooks Week of January 8, 2024 …Florida in particular is becoming a home for the wayward right-leaning Jew. Florida Jews went 41% for Trump in 2020. Exit polls showed Gov. DeSantis climbing to 45% of the Jewish vote in his recent election. That number could be even higher; the campaign team will confirm after they finish combing through precinct data in the coming weeks.Michael Shellenberger and his colleagues Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi are now undertaking a monumental attempt at defining that apparatus: they call it the Censorship Industrial Complex. Shellenberger and Gutentag are two of the few journalists who not only take the reality of increased government censorship efforts seriously but …Reality Is Just a Game Now. Jon Askonas The New Atlantis July 22, 2022. Diego González. On the recent twentieth anniversary of 9/11, I reflected on how I would tell my children about that day when they are older. The fact of the attacks, the motivations of the hijackers, how the United States responded, what it felt like: all of these seemed ...RealClearBooks November 6, 2023 Archives | RealClearBooksSep 8, 2023 · Albert Eisenberg is the Principal of BlueStateRed, a political messaging firm, and is based in Charleston, SC, and Philadelphia. He has been featured on RealClearPolitics, National Review, Fox News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere. @Albydelphia. “No half baths, and no skylights!,” my realtor snapped at me, half joking but exasperated. A New Translation of ‘The Brothers Karamazov’. Sam Sacks WSJ August 8, 2023. Russian Life, Nov/Dec 2006 Constantin Shapiro. Here’s a data point that may be useful in the tricky task of choosing between excellent translations of a Russian classic: In Constance Garnett’s canonical 1912 version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers ... RealClearBooks(RCB) is the book news, book review, and publishing industry aggregator for RealClear Media Group. RealClearBooks provides a daily reference point to help readers take in the world of books, the changing nature of publishing, and the latest industry issues and controversies that attach themselves to the written word. The following is a condensed version of "The Promise of Habit-Based Learning" by Barbara Oakley & Terrence Sejnowski, published at Law & Liberty.Something has gone awry in American education. For example, over the past decades, the U.S. has dropped to the bottom of international rankings for developed countries in math.The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece. On the evening of April 20, 1972, Craig and Janice Eckhart loaded several bags of luggage into a Buick in Wichita, Kansas, and put their two daughters—four-year-old Lori and year-old Cindy—in the back seat. Craig was going to see about a job in Iowa, where he and Janice had relatives.The Prime of Their Lives. Chris Payne The Ringer February 26, 2024. Invision. “Time to Pretend” is the rock star Iliad and Odyssey, nestled in a four-minute pop song. Say yes to models, Paris, and heroin; no to jobs with offices and morning commutes. After its major-label release in 2007, the song oozed out of teenage bedrooms and …By RealClearBooks Symposium June 30, 2023 PixabayA New Translation of ‘The Brothers Karamazov’. Sam Sacks WSJ August 8, 2023. Russian Life, Nov/Dec 2006 Constantin Shapiro. Here’s a data point that may be useful in the tricky task of choosing between excellent translations of a Russian classic: In Constance Garnett’s canonical 1912 version of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “The Brothers ...RealClearBooks(RCB) is the book news, book review, and publishing industry aggregator for RealClear Media Group. RealClearBooks provides a daily reference point to help readers take in the world of books, the changing nature of publishing, and the latest industry issues and controversies that attach themselves to the written word.It’s been almost four years since the coronavirus pandemic inaugurated a period of sustained upheaval for knowledge workers. The first wave of change came in early 2021, with the Great Resignation—a mass exodus from the workforce that saw, at its peak, millions of Americans quitting their jobs each month. Then, in 2022, we got the Remote …Apr 22, 2022 · The book is written in a lively, entertaining style that sheds light on the evolving story of American democracy. We asked Riel to apply this historical perspective to today's biggest questions about campaigns and politicians, but also upcoming elections in 2022 and 2024. RealClearBooks organized a symposium on Tony Woodlief's new book, The Pragmatic American by Tony Woodlief, Executive Vice President at State Policy Network. The American People Must Relocate Power to the States by Richard M. Reinsch, II, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Politics Should be Contentious by Glenn Ellmers, …Talk about a ludicrously capacious feast. After the Roy siblings finally agreed to back Kendall (played by Jeremy Strong) as their leader in the series finale of Succession, they... May 19, 2023. 'Jury Duty' Is Terrific TV. It Shouldn’t Get Another Season.By RealClearBooks Symposium June 30, 2023 PixabayThe Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece. On the evening of April 20, 1972, Craig and Janice Eckhart loaded several bags of luggage into a Buick in Wichita, Kansas, and put their two daughters—four-year-old Lori and year-old Cindy—in the back seat. Craig was going to see about a job in Iowa, where he and Janice had relatives.Jun 28, 2023 · They sat in the diner’s only corner booth. The reviewer was drinking black coffee. The Thalidomide Kid hadn’t touched his fish-and-chips, claiming it smelled of mercury. “ Jesus,” spat the Kid. “ Don’t get biblical this early in the morning.”. “ You mean late afternoon.”. “ It could be three seconds till midnight on the ... Jan 9, 2024 · In The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition, just published by the University of Notre Dame Press, Graham James McAleer and Alexander S. 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Jun 28, 2023 · By RealClearBooks Symposium. June 28, 2023. In the second RealClear Books & Culture Symposium, Sam Buntz, Justin Lee, and Titus Techera review Cormac McCarthy's 'The Passenger.'. Riding Shotgun to the End of the World by Sam Buntz. A Conversation with the Thalidomide Kid by Justin Lee. The Rugged Individualism of Cormac McCarthy by Titus Techera. Maya Sinha Creative License. Previous Month (February 2024) March 2024 Next Month (April 2024) Su. Mo. Tu.In comes R.F. Kuang’s Yellowface, a novel about a white author who feels insecure over Asian women and tries to be one. The narrator, novelist June Hayward, is a liberal white woman, the likes of which dominate the literary world. However, she is unsuccessful in the industry, unlike her best friend, acclaimed author and Kuang’s self …Mar 15, 2024 · The first thing you notice when walking into the middle-school classrooms at Brilla, a charter-school network in the South Bronx, is the sense of calm. No phones are out. The students are quiet—not in the beaten-down way of those under authoritarian rule but in the way of those who seem genuinely interested in their work. Michael Shellenberger and his colleagues Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi are now undertaking a monumental attempt at defining that apparatus: they call it the Censorship Industrial Complex. Shellenberger and Gutentag are two of the few journalists who not only take the reality of increased government censorship efforts seriously but …Mar 14, 2024 · Normophobia. Mary Harrington First Things March 14, 2024. Natalya Zaritskaya. We’re all familiar with the policy debates that surround the family. How does the tax code interact with family stability and the needs of children? The story begins at King’s Cross Station, where the narrator, Khaled, sees off his friend Hosam Zawa, who is moving to Northern California. They are both Libyan expats who left as teenagers; theirs is a twenty-one-year-old friendship, from youth to middle age, that began in Paris and continued in London. Khaled is a teacher, Hosam a former ...RealClearBooks organized a symposium on Tony Woodlief's new book, The Pragmatic American by Tony Woodlief, Executive Vice President at State Policy Network. The American People Must Relocate Power to the States by Richard M. Reinsch, II, senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. Politics Should be Contentious by Glenn Ellmers, …By John G. Grove. October 12, 2023. About a month before the release of his new book, The Origins of Woke, Richard Hanania’s secret past as a hard-right, pseudonymous writer for overtly racist publications was exposed by the Huffington Post. Hanania copped to it right away and condemned his former views, commenting on why he abandoned them.Sam Jefferies RealClearBooks December 8, 2023 AP Gloves and sticks scatter across the ice as five men throw themselves at one another, full tilt and reckless. One skater slips, and others pile on top, thumping his back and head and chest with bare fists. Even the goalie joins the fray, his massive pads cushioning the impact as he barrels …The Allure of Bigfoot. John O’Connor’s The Secret History of Bigfoot: Field Notes on a North American Monster is a work of mourning. Bigfoot, as O’Connor, a journalism professor, illustrates, is thriving—if by “Bigfoot” we’re talking about the legend of Sasquatch and the communities that have sprung up to seek out the hairy ...RealClearBooks November 6, 2023 Archives | RealClearBooksMichael Shellenberger and his colleagues Alex Gutentag and Matt Taibbi are now undertaking a monumental attempt at defining that apparatus: they call it the Censorship Industrial Complex. Shellenberger and Gutentag are two of the few journalists who not only take the reality of increased government censorship efforts seriously but …Cecilia’s antics eventually land her in the hands of a cult that involves 1920s attire, haunting cabaret music, and a mysterious matriarchal leader–all while taking place on a boat that travels to and from docks in Manhattan, Queens, and Brooklyn. Burton’s novel is one among several recent releases that explore the clash between poetic ...How to Save a Sad, Lonely, Angry and Mean Society. David Brooks New York Times January 29, 2024. Jakob Owens. Recently, while browsing in the Museum of Modern Art store in New York, I came across a tote bag with the inscription, “You are no longer the same after experiencing art.”.Mar 14, 2024 · Normophobia. Mary Harrington First Things March 14, 2024. Natalya Zaritskaya. We’re all familiar with the policy debates that surround the family. How does the tax code interact with family stability and the needs of children? RealClearBooks: Can 'We the People' Be Trusted? Law & Liberty: The Lost World of Statesmanship American Mind: Burke in America New Criterion: The Right …The Hero Gen Z Needs. Snoopy was everywhere when I was growing up, in the early 2000s. On TV, the cartoon beagle appeared as a float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and starred in the holiday specials my family watched; in real life, his statues were all over Saint Paul, Minnesota, a hometown I share with the Peanuts creator …RealClearBooks. 1,123 likes. www.realclearbooks.com RealClearBooks, a sister site of RealClearPolitics, is a catch-all source foFollow RealClearBooks on Twitter Sign up for the RealClearBooks e-mail newsletter and never miss an update! Previous Month (February 2024) March 2024 Next …The Terrifying Car Crash That Inspired a Masterpiece. On the evening of April 20, 1972, Craig and Janice Eckhart loaded several bags of luggage into a Buick in Wichita, Kansas, and put their two daughters—four-year-old Lori and year-old Cindy—in the back seat. Craig was going to see about a job in Iowa, where he and Janice had relatives.Aug 17, 2023 · Renata Adler, Joan Didion, Jonathan Franzen, Gabriel García Márquez, Graham Greene, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates, George Orwell, Cynthia Ozick, Thomas Pynchon, J. D. Salinger—Epstein finds them all wanting and dispatches them at length or in passing in this self-styled book-length “essay.”. Obviously, then, when Epstein asserts of ... Albert Eisenberg is the Principal of BlueStateRed, a political messaging firm, and is based in Charleston, SC, and Philadelphia. He has been featured on RealClearPolitics, National Review, Fox News, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere. @Albydelphia. “No half baths, and no skylights!,” my realtor snapped at me, half joking …By RealClearBooks Symposium June 30, 2023 PixabayJan 25, 2024 · RealClearBooks - January 8, 2024. 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