I think the WikiLeaks releases furnish us with an opportunity to observe the upper reaches of the American status hierarchy in all… — Thomas Frank Academic Copy Share Image
Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning… — Thomas Frank Amazing Copy Share Image
These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting… — Thomas Frank Ads 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 Average 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
“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
“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 Kindlehighlight Copy Share Image
While Democrats fussed with the details of health care reforms, conservatives spent months telling the nation that the real issue is freedom,… — Thomas Frank American 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 Betray 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
The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we… — Thomas Frank Acknowledge 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
Joe Klein is the flower of American political journalism, a sharp raconteur who shows traces of the gonzo style that was in… — Thomas Frank American Copy Share Image
People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about. — Thomas Frank American Copy Share Image
To be sure, we should all eat right, brush our teeth, and cut down on sweets, but that will hardly help us… — Thomas Frank Born Copy Share Image
There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom'… — Thomas Frank Annoying Copy Share Image