Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself. — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate… — Thomas Frank Borrowing 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
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 Copy Share Image
Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution. — Thomas Frank Journalism Copy Share Image
“Saying, “I don’t feel like it,” does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to limit your choices going forward.” — Thomas Frank Choices Copy Share Image
Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war… — Thomas Frank Conservatism Copy Share Image
Whereas all liberals are thought to erupt self-righteously whenever they feel like it, conservatives believe that they themselves are never permitted to… — 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Copy Share Image
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… — 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
“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
“In truth, however, nothing is inevitable and very little is new. And tech is no more the root of the problem than… — Thomas Frank Innovations Copy Share Image
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
“above all, intellectual. Anti-intellectualism is one of the grand unifying themes of the backlash, the mutant strain of class war that underpins… — Thomas Frank Conservatism 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 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
As you may recall, Truman was extremely unpopular when he finally left Washington in 1953, thanks largely to the Korean War. Today,… — Thomas Frank 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 Copy Share Image
The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part… — Thomas Frank Administration Copy Share Image
“...the people at the top know what they have to do to stay there, and in a pinch they can easily overlook… — Thomas Frank Conservatives Copy Share Image
Privatizing bits of the prison industry was a step in the right direction, but what we didn't have - until recently -… — 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
As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has… — Thomas Frank Armageddon Copy Share Image
Our current way of regulating the financial system is dysfunctional. Oversight is dispersed among numerous confusing bodies that at times have seemed… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny… — Thomas Frank Company Copy Share Image
We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to… — Thomas Frank Abraham Copy Share Image
Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Just as the financial crisis has created toxic assets and 'zombie' financial institutions, so has it transformed conservatism into a movement of… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
Financial regulation is the next item on the political horizon, and it doesn't have to be the deathly dull wonk-battle that it… — Thomas Frank Battle Copy Share Image
