Chicago Quote by Thomas Frank

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

— Thomas Frank

“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

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

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

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

“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

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

— Thomas Frank

Presidential legacies are valuable things, too valuable to be left up to historians.

— Thomas Frank

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

“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

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

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