Thomas Frank Quotes

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 World.

I Think The Wikileaks Releases Furnish Us With An Opportunity To Observe The Upper Reaches Of The American Status Hierarchy In All Its Righteousness And Majesty. High-achieving Colleagues Attempting To Get Jobs For Their High-achieving Children. Foundation Executives Doing Fine And Noble Things. Prizes, Of Course, And High Academic Achievement.

As You May Recall, Truman Was Extremely Unpopular When He Finally Left Washington In 1953, Thanks Largely To The Korean War. Today, However, He Is Thought To Have Been A Solidly Good President, A 'near Great' Even, In The Terminology Of Those Surveys Of Historians They Do Every Now And Then.

These Days, Of Course, The Focus Of Talk About Popular Liberation Through Products Is Mostly Associated With The Internet. I've Been Collecting Computer Ads And Ads Dealing With Internet Industries.

What Becomes Fascinating Is The Way The Culture Industry Doesn't Deny It And Doesn't Try To Mitigate It, But Tries To Sell Its Products As A Way Of Liberating Oneself.

Above All Else Stands The Burning Question Of Bipartisanship. Whatever Else The Politicians Might Say They're About, Our News Analysts Know That This Is The True Object Of The Nation's Desire, The Topic To Which Those Slippery Presidential Spokesmen Need Always To Be Dragged Back.

There Is Much To Dislike About President Obama's Approach To The Financial Crisis. But Opposition, It Seems, Will Have To Come From Somewhere Other Than Conservatism. The Party Out Of Power Is Also A Party Out Of Touch.

During The Financial Crisis And Bailouts Of 2008, It Probably Occurred To Very Few Average People That We Were Entering A Period Of Hardship For Billionaires.

The Obama Administration's Plan Is To Have The Federal Reserve Regulate Banks That Might Pose A 'systemic Risk' If They Were To Fail.

What Is At Stake In The Debate Over Health Care Is More Than The Mere Crafting Of Policy. The Issue Is Now The Identity Of The Democratic Party.

In The Last James Bond Movie, The Villain Was A Culture Captain, A Tycoon Of Culture, A Murdoch Figure. It's Not As If People Don't Know What Is Going On.

In The Subprime Mortgage Industry, Bankers Handed Out Iffy Loans Like Candy At A Parade Because Such Loans Meant Revenue And, Hence, Bonuses For Executives In The Here-and-now.