Thomas Frank
Who is Thomas Frank
Thomas Carr Frank (born March 21, 1965) is an American political analyst, historian, and journalist. He co-founded and edited The Baffler magazine. Frank is the author of the books What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004) and Listen, Liberal (2016), among others. From 2008 to 2010 he wrote "The Tilting Yard", a column in The Wall Street Journal.
A historian of culture and ideas, Frank analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of culture wars in American political life and the relationship between politics and culture in the United States.
Early life
Frank was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Mission Hills, Kansas. He...
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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 so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.
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Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses.
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Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense.
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Former President Bill Clinton, who is widely regarded as a political mastermind, may have sounded like a traditional liberal at the beginning of his term in office. But what ultimately defined his presidency was his amazing pliability on matters of principle.
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The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the great goal of the conservative movement, as it rose to triumph in the 1980s, was to remove that threat - to keep OSHA, the EPA, and the FTC from choking off entrepreneurship with their infernal meddling in the marketplace.
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- Abc27news: we kickoff our road to the draft coverage with a 1-on-1 with blue-white illustrated’s thomas frank carr. he speaks with nittany nation reporter ryan risky on this latest podcast episode to talk about the nittany lions in this year’s draft class.
- Disneyana20: the disney villain 1st ed signed by frank thomas & ollie johnston slipcase
- Datarsenalboi1: premier league and arsenal goal of the season so far by thomas partey
- Jamestcarterii: this is something i feel should be mentioned more often. in a country where more people have a job (or jobs, plural) than have a career, it is more common for someone to move across the country to a large city for a career than it is for a job. thomas frank put it best:
- Ianbobmorris: thomas frank doing economic reductionism before it was cool feels like a reason it went downhill, next i am going to look at adbusters
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