If you're in New York City, please come to one of my two upcoming gigs.
On Wednesday, July 28, I will be speaking at the Borders on Park Avenue at 57th Street (wherever that is) at 7 pm. The topic is, "What's The Matter With Kansas?" Six Years Later: Backlash in Hard Times. I will be joined by Barbara Ehrenreich, author of "Nickel and Dimed."
And then on Friday, July 30, Joe Winston and I will be at the opening of the movie version of "What's the Matter With Kansas?," at the Producers’ Club "Indiehouse" Cinema, which is located at 358 West 44 Street, between 8th & 9th Avenues. I will do my tricks after the 7:15 showing and will very possibly be around to introduce the 9:30 showing as well.
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July 21, 2010 |
In Connecticut, a GOP candidate with a class warrior past.
By Thomas Frank
Politics is not a place for snobs or people of priggish tastes. It is a long procession of pancake breakfasts, bean feeds, corn dogs and beer, and woe betide the candidate who doesn't know how to bowl or who turns up her nose at a state fair.
Given that, why is Linda McMahon, the likely Republican choice in Connecticut to run against Attorney General Richard Blumenthal for the U.S. Senate, trying to distance herself from her extraordinary achievements at the most down-home reaches of American culture?
Ms. McMahon was, until recently, the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), a producer...
Continue reading at The Wall Street Journal... Given that, why is Linda McMahon, the likely Republican choice in Connecticut to run against Attorney General Richard Blumenthal for the U.S. Senate, trying to distance herself from her extraordinary achievements at the most down-home reaches of American culture?
Ms. McMahon was, until recently, the CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), a producer...
The Wrecking Crew
Casting his eyes from the Bush administration’s final months of plunder to the earliest days of the Republican revolution, Thomas Frank uncovers the deep logic behind the graft and incompetence of conservatives in power.
What's the Matter with Kansas?
Kansas, once home to farmers who marched against "money power," is now solidly Republican. In this scathing and high-spirited polemic, this fact is not just "the mystery of Kansas" but "the mystery of America."
