We the people say it loud and clear every Election Day, in high-crime periods as well as peaceful stretches - More of… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figure. It's not as… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
During the financial crisis and bailouts of 2008, it probably occurred to very few average people that we were entering a period… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
If your purpose is to understand the clique of people who dominate Washington today, the emails that really matter are the ones… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
People are born in a certain place, and in a certain society. I don't mean to sound like a determinist, but to… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Markets are interested in profits and profits only; service, quality, and general affluence are different functions altogether. The universal, democratic prosperity that… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
They, the conservatives, are the real outsides, they tell us, gazing with disgust upon the ludicrous manners of the high and mighty.… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“above all, intellectual. Anti-intellectualism is one of the grand unifying themes of the backlash, the mutant strain of class war that underpins so many… — Thomas Frank Copy Share
The only truly individualistic health-care choice - where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else's funds - is to forgo insurance altogether,… — Thomas Frank Copy Share
Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share
A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and heap the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share
“Innovation liberalism is "a liberalism of the rich," to use the straightforward phrase of local labor leader Harris Gruman. This doctrine has no patience… — Thomas Frank Copy Share
Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians. — Thomas Frank Copy Share
A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was going to… — Thomas Frank Copy Share
“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the slaughter of… — Thomas Frank Copy Share
Vibrancy is so universally desirable, so totemic in its powers, that even though we aren't sure what the word means, we know the quality… — Thomas Frank Copy Share
Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly… — Thomas Frank Copy Share
Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly… — Thomas Frank Copy Share
Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion. — Thomas Frank Copy Share
Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of… — Thomas Frank Copy Share
