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Leighton Woodhouse
Personal blog · leightonwoodhouse.substack.compoliticsculture
Leighton Woodhouse writes Social Studies, a personal blog at leightonwoodhouse.substack.com about politics and culture. Since 2021, 8 different Hacker News readers have linked it 21 times, most often “The Circulation of the Elites”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Leighton Woodhouse's Substack for essays on news coverage, crime and drug policy, and cultural topics such as Fauci and a 1920s-style Reefer Madness parody. Comments focus on the subjects more than the prose.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Politics, media and social theory.
Most-linked posts?
- The Circulation of the Elites2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-06-29
What Hacker News says?
It's like this. (Not that it needs to be stated. We all know this.) The Delta Airline pilot union today put out a terse, two paragraph letter to the public, blaming the airline for their forced overtime and subsequent flight delays. There were hundreds of news articles about this, all of which strung out the lead into several paragraphs and doled out a few sentences of this bland letter. Most of them did not link to…
Comment linking /p/the-generation-that-wrecked-the-media
on “Why does science news suck so much?”Submitted Legalizing Drugs Is a Terrible Idea as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI took the less baity title from the author's site: https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/defund-the-police-m... . I didn't change the URL because this appears to be a more recent article on the same topic.
Comment linking /p/defund-the-police-meets-the-crime
on “Defund the Police meets the crime wave”Submitted Will the Lab Leak Hypothesis Be a Bipartisan Concern in the Next Congress? as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThis is...amazing writing. Am I missing something here?? This guy has written some equally amazing stuff over on his blog. * https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/anthony-fauci-has-b... * https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/the-lumpenbourgeois... * https://leightonwoodhouse.substack.com/p/the-heretics I can't believe this 1920s reimagining of Refer Madness was actually published. I guess Tablet, some source…
Comment linking /p/the-heretics
on “Weed Became the New OxyContin”Submitted Anomie and Impunity: The Unraveling of San Francisco as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thread: What's Up with the Covid Dead Enders? as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Circulation of the Elites as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted God Mode: Authoritarianism is now a preset as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted “Disinformation” Is the New Disinformation as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Order Beneath the Chaos as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Through the Cracks: The The utter failure of California's addiction care “system as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Circulation of the Elites: The counterrevolutionary ethic of the PMC as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Third Transformation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Clout: Social media status contests are shaping our reality as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Outsiders: There's a reason things have gotten so dumb as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Algorithm: The media's new business model is propaganda as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Lumpenbourgeoisie as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Death of the Public as a story · 1 points
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