Luke Savage

Doug Ford enters his Nero phase Are the wheels finally coming off for Ontario's decadent PC regime? Since he entered provincial politics in 2018, Ontario premier Doug Ford has consistently maintained a level of discipline that always eluded his late broth... See more

The conventional wisdom about generational politics is just plain wrong People do not, in fact, enter adulthood as radicals and get conservative with age There’s a viral clip of Holly Valance that’s been making the rounds on social media in which the Aust... See more

A few weeks ago, I recorded a lengthy conversation with Bhaskar Sunkara: founding editor of Jacobin (where I’ve been publishing since 2014) and president of The Nation magazine. Bhaskar was in town to deliver the 2026 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture, which yo... See more

Who's afraid of price controls? The ongoing meltdown over food price caps in Britain is yet another case study in decrepit market dogmas that simply refuse to die NOTE: I keep as much of this Substack free as I can, but as a freelancer I depend on the inc... See more

Baseball, sports betting, and the commodification of literally everything If everything is an asset then nothing has value NOTE: I keep as much of this Substack free as I can, but as a freelancer I depend on the income I receive from writing so please con... See more