Leighton Woodhouse

Oakland

Freelance Journalist, Writer and Filmmaker at Freelance

Reporter/doc filmmaker Contributor @unherd @thefp @sfstandard

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Articles

Art and Revolution

1 week ago | leightonwoodhouse.substack.com | Leighton Woodhouse

Pedro Gonzalez recently published a very smart essay on art and the New Right at The Metropolitan Review, a Substack I’d never heard of but to which I have now become an unpaid subscriber. Pedro’s argument, distilled to the point of doing it a disservice, is that right-wing art sucks, and for the same reason that left-wing art sucks: because politics makes art terrible. This isn’t a “response” to Pedro in the sense of arguing with his thesis, since I enthusiastically agree with it.
Opinion | Barbara Lee can save Oakland – by doing this

2 weeks ago | sfstandard.com | Leighton Woodhouse

Earlier this week, Barbara Lee was sworn in as Oakland’s new Mayor to serve the remainder of the term of her disgraced predecessor, Sheng Thao. Lee persuaded a small majority of Oakland voters that she was up to the task of leading this struggling city through simultaneous crises: serious crime, disorder, and the threat of bankruptcy.
Goodbye Oakland A’s. Hello Oakland Ballers.

2 weeks ago | thefp.com | Leighton Woodhouse

OAKLAND, California—On a perfect night in West Oakland, Jorge Leon is roaming around Ernie Raimondi Park, where the city’s new independent league baseball team, the Oakland Ballers, play. It’s the first game of the new season, and the ballpark is sold out. A few minutes earlier Leon was up in the stands, shouting “Let’s go Oakland!” at the top of his lungs, but right now he’s on the outdoor concourse, where fans wait in line for food and locally brewed Almanac beer.
Matt Taibbi’s Willful Credulousness

3 weeks ago | leightonwoodhouse.substack.com | Leighton Woodhouse

There’s a certain kind of formerly dissident writer who pretends to believe that in the last few months nothing has fundamentally changed. Trump may have won, but the rest of the status order in America is basically the same. The same people and the same institutions hold the same power over the public discourse that they did before. The same media outlets and the same class of Americans wield the same influence they always have and deserve the same mockery and ridicule.
Watching Zionism Wreck The Anti-Woke Movement | Live with Lee Fang & Leighton Woodhouse

1 month ago | wetheblacksheep.com | Joseph Klein |Lee Fang |Leighton Woodhouse

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of appearing on Lee Fang and Leighton Woodhouse’s livestream.
Return of the King

1 month ago | leightonwoodhouse.substack.com | Leighton Woodhouse

I’m leaving this post without a paywall but I can’t continue Social Studies without your help. If you’re a free subscriber, please consider going paid. —LWLast week I got into a brief Twitter debate with JD Vance. I jumped into the fight after Zaid Jilani picked it. Later, Jesse Singal joined in, too. Then Vance quote-tweeted Jesse with this attack:I hate this smug, self-assured bullshit.
Live with Jake Klein, an Advocate for Free Speech, Liberty, and Individualism

1 month ago | leefang.com | Lee Fang |Joseph Klein |Leighton Woodhouse

Our guest today is Jake Klein, a libertarian activist and author who has written about the dangers of identity politics and tribalism. Klein, who was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and is now atheist, talks about his path in life. We chat about the unproductive nature of many pro-Palestinian activists on the far left, the hypocrisy of many supposed “heterodox thinkers” and why we have come to reject any kind of racial or ethnic category.
Opinion | Oakland Mayor race sees hypocrisy over police defunding

1 month ago | sfstandard.com | Leighton Woodhouse

In a display of political hypocrisy spectacular even by the standards of Oakland’s septic politics, mayoral candidate Loren Taylor is being falsely accused of supporting police defunding by the same people who championed that cause a few years ago. Oaklanders will vote Tuesday to elect a replacement for former Mayor Sheng Thao, who was recalled last year and indicted on criminal charges in January.
Will Oakland Reject Progressive Politics in Mayoral Race?

1 month ago | thefp.com | Leighton Woodhouse

Will Oakland Finally Reject Progressive Politics? A special mayoral race in this troubled city is a litmus test for the Democratic Party’s future. ‘Carjackings, home invasions. . . I’ve lost my patience.’Loren Taylor is no populist rabble-rouser. With his good manners and his moderate politics, he would never be mistaken for someone aiming to burn down the political establishment.
Meet the New Boss

2 months ago | readcontra.com | Leighton Woodhouse |Pedro Gonzalez |Pedro González

The first half of this episode is free. You can find Leighton’s work at on Substackand follow him on Twitter @lwoodhouse. “Morning in America.” That’s what comes to mind when we think of the heady 1980s. Departing from the “malaise era” for brighter shores with wind in the sails and dawn’s gentle rays on our faces. A nation strutting with swagger anew, convinced of its exceptional destiny, ineluctable as the tide.