Luke Savage is a columnist at Jacobin. He is the author of The Dead Center: Reflections on Liberalism and Democracy After the End of History.

09.22.2016

The Case for Party Democracy

Critics charge that party democracy is the road to ruin for Labour and others. Here’s why they’re wrong.

07.07.2016

The Democratic Deficit

The problem of the day isn’t too much democracy. It’s the accumulation of power by elites.

03.29.2016

Rob Ford’s toxic political career grew out of an urban class divide that won’t perish with him.

03.14.2016

Michael Moore’s new film idealizes progressive reforms abroad while ignoring the political struggles it took to win them.

01.12.2016

Equating the Sanders and Trump campaigns is meant to obscure their real political differences and defend the neoliberal consensus.

10.20.2015

Despite the defeat of Harperism in yesterday’s Canadian election, the Liberals’ victory leaves little to celebrate.

12.02.2014

The “New Atheists” have gained traction because they give intellectual cover to Western imperialism.

09.25.2014

Scottish independence achieved mass support because it gave ordinary people the sense that they can control their own destiny.