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born 1965 United States

Thomas Carr Frank (born March 21, 1965) is an American author who writes about what he calls "cultural politics". He is the founder and editor of The Baffler and the author of several books, most recently Listen, Liberal.

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Also known as: Frank, Thomas, Thomas Frank, What's the Matter with Kansas?

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Apparently, there is no bad economic turn a conservative cannot do unto his buddy in the working class, as long as cultural solidarity has been cemented over a beer.

What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004)

The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society’s "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world — the power that creates the nation’s real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political system.

What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004)

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