Pity the Bamboozled and Confused

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jan 8, 2013 “Every problem that the editorialists fret about today will get worse,” Harper’s Magazine columnist and author Thomas Frank told an audience in November. “Inequality, global warming, financial bubbles, one after another. But it won’t matter. On America will go, chasing the only ideology that our country has left, down into the seething Arcadia of all against all.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Working Life of a Professional Cynic

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Nov 1, 2012 Thomas Frank, master of sarcasm and chief polemicist for Harper’s Magazine, is a treasure of the anxious, aggravated left. He recently made a demonstration of happy defiance in the face of accelerating social disaster in an interview with The Financial Times. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pity Us, We’re Only Billionaires

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Oct 19, 2012 It’s all Obama’s fault that the public appears at times to be waking up from a stupor generated by 30 years of class warfare, says the confused rich guy in a high-rise in the neighborhood you can’t afford to spit in. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Doubling Down on Disaster

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 19, 2012 Thomas Frank, one of the country’s leading elegists of American representative democracy and a columnist for Harper’s Magazine, has spent his career chronicling the nation’s descent into plutocracy. This week he sang against the forces of free-market dominion on Bill Moyers’ television show. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Pity the Quarter-Billionaire

By Thomas Frank, TomDispatch Jan 8, 2012 Dear Tea Party Movement: You should get behind Mitt Romney, the charging Massachusetts RINO, because—in a certain paradoxical way—he may turn out to be the truest of all the candidates to the spirit of your movement. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Thomas Frank on ‘Utopian Market Populism’

Staff / Truthdig Dec 29, 2011 “Pity the Billionaire,” the new book by Harper’s Magazine columnist Thomas Frank, surveys the politics of the last three years to determine why the American right survived and thrived after an economic crash caused by a 30-year love affair with the so-called free-market that it procured. Salon speaks to Frank by phone. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )