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Joseph K. Woodard is a Research Fellow with the new Gregory the Great Institute in Alberta, and moderates online Great Books seminars with Angelicum Academy. He accumulated degrees from the University of Alberta, Dalhousie University, St. John’s College, and Claremont Graduate School (PhD). He then invested fifteen years as an academic, fifteen as a journalist, and eleven as a Canadian federal tribunal judge, while helping (ineptly) his one wife Kathy to raise their ten children.
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Anthony Fauci and his beloved client, the bureaucratic regime

August 8, 2026 Joseph K. Woodard 0

In the late 1980s, while I was finishing my PhD at Claremont Graduate School, President Ronald Reagan appointed my thesis advisor, Dr. William Barclay Allen, to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. A year […]

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A Realist Outline of History, Part Two

April 16, 2026 Joseph K. Woodard 7

Editor’s note: Part One of this essay can be read here. The First Apocalypse: The Blessings of Anarchy In the fifth century, the Western Church suffered its First Apocalypse, losing its demographic race to revive […]

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A Realist Outline of History, Part One

April 12, 2026 Joseph K. Woodard 7

Editor’s note: This is the first part of a two-part essay. Most diagnoses of our current cultural malaise have focused on either of two narrower causes: the ideological and idealistic, or the organizational and materialistic. […]

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The need for the Madonna in reforming our culture

October 12, 2025 Joseph K. Woodard 9

As Tom Holland’s 2021 book Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World reveals, in every past civilization (even our Greco-Roman forbearers), women were either commodities, guarded by their families as dynastic assets, or simply booty, “sex […]

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