Archive - Luke Savage

The Enshittification of Life, the Universe, and Everything ft. Cory Doctorow

My recent discussion with writer and digital rights activist Cory Doctorow on AI, art, and why the luddites were right

14 mins ago • Luke Savage and Cory Doctorow

46:24

Doug Ford enters his Nero phase

Are the wheels finally coming off for Ontario's decadent PC regime?

Jun 3 • Luke Savage

The conventional wisdom about generational politics is just plain wrong

People do not, in fact, enter adulthood as radicals and grow more conservative with age

Jun 1 • Luke Savage

May 2026

Andy Burnham is playing it dangerously safe

Manchester's Mayor is promising to break with 40 years of neoliberal politics while practicing an all-too familiar kind of centre-left triangulation

May 27 • Luke Savage

Time for Socialism ft. Bhaskar Sunkara

A far-reaching conversation with the founding editor of Jacobin magazine about the past, present, and future of the socialist project

May 24 • Luke Savage

1:03:20

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

May 21 • Luke Savage

Baseball, sports betting, and the commodification of literally everything

If everything is an asset then nothing has value

May 19 • Luke Savage

Conservatives want you to work till you drop

On the National Review's unconvincing case that toil builds character

May 18 • Luke Savage

Starmer-ism endgame

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May 15 • Luke Savage

From traditionalism to Jesus slop

Reject tradition, embrace postmodernity

May 5 • Luke Savage

Mark Carney's "sovereign wealth fund" is a mirage

Canada's prime minister might be talking like a Nordic social democrat but he is governing more like a Thatcherite

May 4 • Luke Savage

April 2026

AI propaganda strikes again

Reactionary nostalgia collides with Silicon Valley's bogus hype machine

Apr 30 • Luke Savage

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