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Words in The Washington Post, The Guardian, Toronto Star, New Statesman, Smithsonian & elsewhere. Columnist at Jacobin.
“In the past year & a half, the crisis prompted by Trump’s trade [war] has been transformed into an excuse for lacerating public sector cuts & the embrace of military Keynesianism.” Forever 2025 - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...
Forever 2025
Eighteen months into Donald Trump’s disruptive trade war, Canada finds itself back in a very familiar place
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Don't forget to catch a replay of last night's livestream with @lukewsavage.bsky.social youtube.com/live/BhEVVoU...
American Prestige Free World Livestream 8/27/26, with Luke Savage
YouTube video by American Prestige
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I'll be joining @dwdavison.bsky.social and @dbessner.bsky.social of American Prestige live at 8pm tonight to talk about the recent collapse of Canada/US trade talks, the Carney government's approach to Trump, and much more. Tune in if you can! [live links in next post]
@lukewsavage.bsky.social writes: “When the next Red Scare almost inevitably comes, it may prove as sinister as its ancestors, but will also be stupider than anyone can possibly imagine. “With any luck, this will be its greatest weakness.”
The New Red Scare Is Dumber Than Ones Past
The appeal of socialism once inspired intellectual ferment on the right. Today, its critique of the left is completely out of gas.
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Orwell’s descriptions of how the party approached and managed mass culture in Nineteen Eighty-Four contain some of the book’s most interesting and prescient insights. Among other things, he essentially predicted AI art. Link in first reply.
Orwell’s descriptions of how the party approached and managed mass culture in Nineteen Eighty-Four contain some of the book’s most interesting and prescient insights. Among other things, he essentially predicted AI art. Link in first reply.
My colleague @lukewsavage.bsky.social and I will be hosting the star-studded post-film discussion at the Toronto screening of the Chapo Trap House production CHUNKS. September 1. Come one come all: paradiseonbloor.com/movies/chunk...
Chunks: Toronto Premiere!
A comedy anthology for people who love TV but can’t find a damn thing to watch.
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I'm in the Star today with a piece on the Carney government's handling of relations with the United States. Last year, Canadians gave Mark Carney a mandate to disentangle our country from the empire to the south. By any reasonable standard, he's done the opposite. Link in first reply.
Very disheartening replies to this solid opinion column — sad to see that a patriotic reality denialism has so many liberal Canadians by the throat
lukewsavage.bsky.social@lukewsavage.bsky.social · last mo.I'm in the Star today with a piece on the Carney government's handling of relations with the United States. Last year, Canadians gave Mark Carney a mandate to disentangle our country from the empire to the south. By any reasonable standard, he's done the opposite. Link in first reply.
I have a new piece on Substack today about the longstanding centrist chimera of "electability", which has always been more about disciplining the Democratic base than actually winning elections.
I have a new piece on Substack today about the longstanding centrist chimera of "electability", which has always been more about disciplining the Democratic base than actually winning elections.
"In 2025 millions of Canadians rallied behind what they took to be a promise of renewed economic sovereignty and progressive nation-building. Over the past year, the government they elected has effectively delivered the exact opposite." #cdnpoli
Mark Carney promised to take on Donald Trump. He’s done anything but
While Prime Minister Mark Carney said he be “Elbows up” to Trump, his policy choices have essentially aligned Canada with America.
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I'm in the Star today with a piece on the Carney government's handling of relations with the United States. Last year, Canadians gave Mark Carney a mandate to disentangle our country from the empire to the south. By any reasonable standard, he's done the opposite. Link in first reply.
“They could be saying, ‘these socialists will literally kill you’, but are reduced to making scary faces while they say ‘free college’ & ‘abolish medical debt’ instead.” Socialism's Critics Are Running On Empty - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...
Socialism's Critics Are Running On Empty
Throughout the 20th century, the appeal of socialism inspired genuine intellectual ferment on the reactionary right. Today, its critique of the left is completely out of gas.
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Hey everyone, I have some news: I'm creating a new project today called @thewatchdog.ca The Watchdog's editorial mission is to protect the public and defend democracy through original public interest watchdog journalism. Sign up here as it gets ready to launch: www.thewatchdog.ca/p/sign-up
Sign Up For The Watchdog
The Watchdog protects the public and defends democracy through original public interest watchdog journalism.
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I've been reading Shift Work for about four and a half years. It's a damn shame to see it go; I don't know where I'll get the lowdown on Canadian labo(u)r now.
Emma Arkell@emmaarkell.bsky.social · 2mo agoMy last article as the labour reporter at @pressprogress.ca is about.... media layoffs! Earlier this month, Rogers closed six stations and laid off 230 radio workers across the country. In Vancouver, the layoffs hit a newsroom that had struggled for years to unionize.
Some thoughts on why so many of the ad reads on right wing shows and podcasts are also accidentally hilarious. Link in first reply.
I wrote this short appreciation of the odd Bob Dylan film Masked and Anonymous, playing tonight in NYC www.screenslate.com/articles/mas...
Masked and Anonymous
In Martin Scorsese’s documentary No Direction Home (2005), Joan Baez says of her onetime paramour Bob Dylan, “Thirty some years, whenever I go to a march, sit-in, or lie-in, or jail-in, people always ...
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“A heretic, by definition, rejects or dissents from orthodoxy &, in doing so, inevitably collides with entrenched authority & power. Weiss, & the rest of her ilk, are fundamentally driven by a deep reverence for both.” - @lukewsavage.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/lukewsav...
The reasonable middle has always been an elitist mirage
Bari Weiss's incompetent rebrand of CBS is just the 2000s-era reactionary "free thinker" grift adapted for the age of Donald Trump
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This piece probably needs an update given how central AI has become to the aesthetics of the reactionary right. But I think the essence of the sketch holds, and Trump’s NFT collection was very much the perfect union of the MAGA visual sensibility with the MAGA ideology. Link in first reply.
This piece probably needs an update given how central AI has become to the aesthetics of the reactionary right. But I think the essence of the sketch holds, and Trump’s NFT collection was very much the perfect union of the MAGA visual sensibility with the MAGA ideology. Link in first reply.
Remember when the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador paid this crowd $1 million for a report that went nowhere?
lukewsavage.bsky.social@lukewsavage.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe political and moral panics we're seeing in the wake of successful DSA insurgencies are notably lacking in juice. We frankly used to see a higher caliber of red-baiting. [Link in first reply]
One of the best things about British democracy is the fact it forces rich, privately-educated elites to wait around in grubby community centres then stand onstage next to goofy guys in costumes. Godspeed, Count Binface. [link in first reply]
The rumours are true. My publisher O/R is currently selling their *entire* catalogue at a 30% discount. That includes The Dead Center. What are you waiting for? [link in first reply]
For July 4th, the NYT ran a report on Norway that simultaneously lauded its social welfare institutions while ignoring its high levels of public ownership and dismissing the notion any of this has to do with socialism. That's historically blinkered and analytically unhelpful.
For July 4th, the NYT ran a report on Norway that simultaneously lauded its social welfare institutions while ignoring its high levels of public ownership and dismissing the notion any of this has to do with socialism. That's historically blinkered and analytically unhelpful.
