Thomas Frank in What's the Matter with Kansas: Not long ago, Kansas would have responded to the current situation by making the bastards pay. This would have been a political certainty, as predictable as what happens when you touch a match to a puddle of gasoline. When business screwed the farmers a...

The Weekly Standard's Andrew Ferguson had a clever cover story last week on Barack Obama's hometown of Hyde Park, Chicago, a neighborhood that functions almost entirely as the extended campus of the University of Chicago, where both Obamas once drew salaries. As a zip code, it's where black meets wh...

Thomas Frank takes aim at “Beltway libertarians” in today’s Wall Street Journal . His starting point is a recent America’s Future Foundation panel discussion on whether free marketeers do better to advance free markets in the private sector or while working for free market no...

One anonymous source has now become three, so we're calling it over for Akimbo, the TV-over-the-Intenet startup which no amount of new CEO Thomas Frank's winning smiles could save. Writes an ex-employee:It's true. I used to work for them over 2 years ago and all of my friends that were there are now...

I had forgotten all about What’s The Matter With Kansas?  Thomas Frank’s thesis on why voters in middle America consistently voted against their own economic self interest in favor of culturally targeted political campaigns.  At least, I forgot about it right up until “Bittergate...