A contributing editor of "The New Republic", "The Wilson Quarterly", "Commonwealth Magazine", and "In Character", Wolfe writes often for those publications as well as for "Commonweal", "The New York Times", "Harper's", "The Atlantic Monthly", "The Washington Post", "World Affairs" and other magazines and newspapers. He served as an advisor to President Bill Clinton in preparation for his 1995 State of the Union Address and has lectured widely at American and European universities. He was ranked #98 in the list of the 500 most cited intellectuals in the 2001 book by Richard Posner titled "Public Intellectuals".