Soave is a senior editor for Reason and co-host of The Hill's web news commentary series program Rising.

[2][3] Soave was born in and grew up in the Indian Village district[citation needed] of Detroit and graduated from the University of Michigan.

[4] In 2015, he won a Southern California Journalism Award from the Los Angeles Press Club for his writing about the Rolling Stone story "A Rape on Campus".

[6] In 2019, he gained media attention for his writings defending the Covington Catholic High School students involved in the Lincoln Memorial confrontation.

[10][3][11] Writing in The Guardian, reviewer J. Oliver Conroy called Panic Attack "a methodical, earnest and often insightful work of reporting and analysis, not a fiery polemic.