Social Studies

Unexceptional

My piece for UnHerd

Jul 1 • Leighton Woodhouse

5

1

June 2026

Substack is Airbnb for Journalism

Media is not being revolutionized

Jun 25 • Leighton Woodhouse

56

33

15

We Live In Media

Independent media is as fake as the mass media that birthed it

Jun 15 • Leighton Woodhouse

35

5

5

Why does it matter if China dominates AI?

The Ring doesn't care who wields it

Jun 11 • Leighton Woodhouse

26

1

2

May 2026

The Ideology of Science

Rationality is a spell

May 23 • Leighton Woodhouse

48

14

11

RESCUED, a short film by me

My short documentary on the Ridglan beagle rescue

May 22 • Leighton Woodhouse

21

10

4

15:37

How to Move a Mountain

A movement that rejected the usual political divisions just achieved a massive victory for animal liberation

May 12 • Leighton Woodhouse

28

1

4

What Power Is

Violence and state authority

May 1 • Leighton Woodhouse

34

9

3

April 2026

How Political Violence Failed in the 1990s

My book review for Compact Magazine

Apr 8 • Leighton Woodhouse

13

3

1

You Will Eat The Bugs

As human labor disappears, so will human sovereignty

Apr 7 • Leighton Woodhouse

59

45

12

Learned Helplessness

There's a reason we're doing nothing about any of this

Apr 1 • Leighton Woodhouse

63

42

8

March 2026

Do We Still Have a Democracy? Part II

Things are getting worse quickly.

Mar 4 • Leighton Woodhouse

11

2

1