Luke Savage

The following story is co-published with Luke Savage's Substack. Earlier this week, the eminent economist Thomas Piketty published a short intervention on the ongoing youth-led protests across France, which he dubs 'the twilight of Macronism.' 'Young peop... See more

W hen the credits began to roll at the screening I attended of You Can See Everything , Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's buzzy new documentary, it was like waking up from a dream. I walked away from those three hours — which felt like quite a bit less... See more

Despite Sorkin's claims that he's not just made a sequel, he apparently had been fully confident that Jesse Eisenberg, the star of The Social Network , would be returning, noting rather bitterly that 'The studio offered him every incentive you can offer a... See more

Few of those institutional dinosaurs survive today, as Bernes notes too. There are some mass parties that have weathered the postpolitical ice age and the hyperpolitical thaw — one could think of the Communist Party in Greece — yet they mostly retain inte... See more

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