Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course. — Thomas Frank Bias Copy Share Image
The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
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 Image
There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty? — Thomas Frank Customer Copy Share Image
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. — Thomas Frank Desperate Copy Share Image
Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again. — Thomas Frank Class Copy Share Image
The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to… — Thomas Frank Administration Copy Share Image
Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Republicans run the machine when it's their turn, and then hand the wheel over to Democrats when the public has had enough. — Thomas Frank Computers Copy Share Image
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
Allowing a private rather than a public entity to take over your toll road merely means that your tolls will have to… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
A president aiming for 'Great' or 'Near Great' status must do more. He must give lots of interviews, make records accessible, and… — Thomas Frank Academia Copy Share Image
What becomes fascinating is the way the culture industry doesn't deny it and doesn't try to mitigate it, but tries to sell… — Thomas Frank Artist Copy Share Image
In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task - of taking them to account for… — Thomas Frank America Copy Share Image
Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nation's business journals would be falling… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism… — 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
As it happens, Chicago is the nation's leader in municipal privatization efforts. That's right: The city that conservatives portray as the citadel… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Mounting a campaign against plutocracy makes as much sense to the typical Washington liberal as would circulating a petition against gravity. What… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.… — Thomas Frank Accomplishment Copy Share Image
“For decades, Americans have experienced a populist uprising that only benefits the people it is supposed to be targeting… The angry workers,… — Thomas Frank Populist Copy Share Image
Vote to stand tall against terrorists ; receive Social Security privatization . Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social… — 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 Affluence Copy Share Image
“he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century—naturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
“You can find dozens of examples of this kind of liberal-class virtue-quest if you try, but instead of listing them, let me… — Thomas Frank Character Copy Share Image
“And libertarianism is good because it helps conservatives pass off a patently pro-business political agenda as a noble bid for human freedom.… — Thomas Frank Christian science Copy Share Image
“But such people (Moderate Conservatives) aren't liberal. What they are is corporate. Their habits and opinions owe far more to the standards… — Thomas Frank Business Copy Share Image
“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about… — Thomas Frank Europe Copy Share Image
“Innovation liberalism is "a liberalism of the rich," to use the straightforward phrase of local labor leader Harris Gruman. This doctrine has… — Thomas Frank Child care Copy Share Image
“There is no solidarity in a meritocracy. The very idea contradicts the ideology of the well-graduated technocrats who rule us. As we… — Thomas Frank Less fortunate Copy Share Image
“The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off. Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes. Vote to… — Thomas Frank Capital gains Copy Share Image
“...[I]t doesn't take an advanced degree to figure out that this education talk is less a strategy for mitigating inequality than it… — Thomas Frank Education Copy Share Image
People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad. — Thomas Frank Bad government Copy Share Image
Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen. — Thomas Frank Authority Copy Share Image
What is at stake in the debate over health care is more than the mere crafting of policy. The issue is now… — Thomas Frank Care Copy Share Image
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