Politics, Culture, and General Curmudgeonry
Listed below are publications curated for especially cultured and thoughtful readers. Foremost is I, Citizen, a pathbreaking book that all the cool kids are reading. You’ll also find essays, reviews, manifestos, and assorted miscellany. If any of the content upsets you, we invite you to fax a letter to our Editorial Department, which reviews complaints on alternate Leap-Year Tuesdays.
I, Citizen shows how the real threat to our union isn’t Red vs. Blue America, it’s the slow erosion of self-governance. From foreign wars to local libraries, authority no longer resides with We the People. This is the story of how that happened, and what we can do about it.
Praise for I, Citizen
“Woodlief, I believe, offers a compelling explanation for one of the great curiosities of our time: Why our day-to-day lives can seem pretty good while we sense that things are terribly wrong in America.
– Andy Smarick, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
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“Tony Woodlief brings a searchlight to bear on the divisive ideologues working among us to destroy ‘the reservoir of goodwill that characterized American civil life for generations.'”
– Jeff Minick, Smoky Mountain News
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“Tony Woodlief explains why localizing politics and loving thy neighbor can help heal our ailing country.”
– Bill Kauffman, author,
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Essays, Epistles, Screeds & Miscellany
“The Right’s New Divide: Frodo vs Boromir” Spectator World, October 4, 2022
“Beware, party bosses, the rise of the unaffiliateds is coming for you” Washington Post, April 14, 2022
“The Myth of Our Looming National Divorce” Spectator World, March 22, 2022
“The Rise of the Interloping Radicals” Spectator World, January 19, 2022
“Independent Voters are Alive and Well—and Angrier Than Ever” NY Post, December 12, 2021
“Is America in ‘a Cold Civil War?’ Not at All” Governing, October 8, 2021
“State Bans on Critical Race Theory Won’t Work” Wall Street Journal, August 20, 2021
“Against the Libertarian-Pajama-Boy Consensus” American Mind, November 17, 2020
“Free Speech Absolutism Killed Free Speech” Wall Street Journal, August 30, 2020
“Setting the Wheel of History Alight: A Review of Solzhenitsyn’s The Red Wheel” American Conservative, July-August 2020
“Why Conservative Fusionism Was Destined to Disintegrate” American Conservative, June 23, 2020
“The Overlooked Potential of State AGs for Police Reform” Governing, June 15, 2020
“The Fires Foretold: Willmoore Kendall and the Burning of America” American Conservative, June 8, 2020
“Bring Me My Bow of Burning Gold: Micturition and Its Discontents” Front Porch Republic, May 7, 2020
“I Come Not to Praise the Megachurch” Good Letters, September 3, 2015
“Back off, Man, I’m a Scientist” Good Letters, November 18, 2014
“The Casserole Dish Manifesto” Good Letters, January 31, 2014
“The Collapse of Western Civilization Begins in Your Dentist’s Chair” Good Letters, September 5, 2012
“Our Love Affair With the Fairs” Wall Street Journal, September 10, 2010
“Curse of the Greedy Copyright Holders” Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2010
“Boy, the Scout Handbook Keeps Changing” Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2010
“Twilight Chic” National Review, March 27, 2009
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