Archive - Luke Savage

July 2025

Werner Herzog, wanderer above the fog

Reflections on a great filmmaker — and his most criminally underrated work

Jul 29 •

Populist New Media is Just Old-Fashioned Big Media Now

All that's solid melts into clicks

Jul 24 •

The air of equality

Orwell's Aragón and the atmosphere of socialism

Jul 21 •

Uncreative destruction

Virtual sex partners and robot insurrections? The damage caused by AI may be much more banal.

Jul 17 •

The world of yesterday

Wes Anderson and the limits of postmodern nostalgia

Jul 14 •

A Lament for Nationalism

Luke Savage on Carney's maple syrup neoliberalism and why the left needs to embrace nationalism

Published on The Hatchet • Jul 10

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The realpolitik of fools

In the centrist imagination, we are perpetually One Weird Trick away from realizing a liberal capitalist utopia that never actually comes

Jul 8 •

A Hitch in Time

On revisiting the socialist Hitchens after 2003

Jul 1 •

June 2025

Why the right gets George Orwell wrong

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m away this week in Nova Scotia, taking some time away from the usual writing and podcasting before diving back…

Jun 26 •

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