Thomas Frank

Media bias has been a favorite theme of the Right for decades, of course.

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I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

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I was never a fan of Barack Obama's bipartisanship routine.

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The thing now is to seem concerned in a vaguely social-democratic way.

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Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad.

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People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

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Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

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The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to…

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Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

— Thomas Frank

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

Surrogate motherhood has been the subject of much philosophical and political dispute over the years.

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There is no higher claim to journalistic integrity than going to jail to protect a source.

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Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently -…

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As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has…

— Thomas Frank

A lot of populists after populism died just became socialists. At the beginning of the 20th century, socialism looked like it was…

— Thomas Frank

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting…

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As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today,…

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The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part…

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“...the people at the top know what they have to do to stay there, and in a pinch they can easily overlook…

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We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to…

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There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged…

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There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom'…

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“Professional-class liberals aren't really alarmed by oversized rewards for society's winners; on the contrary, this seems natural to them -- because they…

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It is always a disappointment to turn from forthright consideration of some subject - whether from the Left or the Right, a…

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“he saw in Populism the first glimmerings of some of the great intellectual upheavals of the twentieth century—naturalism, muckraking, and hard-hitting social…

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We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And…

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“For decades, Americans have experienced a populist uprising that only benefits the people it is supposed to be targeting… The angry workers,…

— Thomas Frank

[The right] may never bring prayer back to schools, but it has rescued all manner of rightwing economic nostrums from history's dustbins.…

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“But such people (Moderate Conservatives) aren't liberal. What they are is corporate. Their habits and opinions owe far more to the standards…

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“And libertarianism is good because it helps conservatives pass off a patently pro-business political agenda as a noble bid for human freedom.…

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“When you have rejected all the accepted social science methods for understanding the way things work, when you can’t talk straight about…

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“You can find dozens of examples of this kind of liberal-class virtue-quest if you try, but instead of listing them, let me…

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“...[I]t doesn't take an advanced degree to figure out that this education talk is less a strategy for mitigating inequality than it…

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“Innovation liberalism is "a liberalism of the rich," to use the straightforward phrase of local labor leader Harris Gruman. This doctrine has…

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“The trick never ages; the illusion never wears off. Vote to stop abortion; receive a rollback in capital gains taxes. Vote to…

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“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

Governing was always difficult for conservatives, but as they return to the opposition, they are rediscovering their skill at blame evasion.

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For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

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Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sovereignty?

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Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's…

— Thomas Frank