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Authors and journalists Thomas Frank, The People, No, and Christopher Caldwell, The Age of Entitlement, discussed their books on populism. This program was part of the 20th annual National B…

Thomas Frank examined economic inequalities in cities across the country.

Authors talked about political parties and elections. Panelists included Ralph Nader, author of Breaking Through Power: It’s Easier Than We Think; Thomas Frank, author of Listen, Liberal: Or…

Thomas Frank talked about his book, Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?. He spoke at Jones College Prep High School at the 2016 Chicago Tribune Printers Ro…

Thomas Frank talked about his book Listen Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People, in which he looks at the impact of liberalism on America and examines its policies. In h…

David Graeber talked about his book, The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement, in which he argues that America’s political system is only responsive to the wealthy and has dise…

Author Thomas Frank talked about his book, Pity the Billionaire: The Hard-Times Swindle and the Unlikely Comeback of the Right, in which he looks at the correlation between the poor economy …

Thomas Frank questions why, following the 2008 economic collapse, there has not been more public outrage against those who benefit most from the economic system. He argues that instead of a …

Victor Pickard, co-editor of Will the Last Reporter Please Turn Out the Lights: The Collapse of Journalism and What Can Be Done to Fix It, talked about the problems facing the news industry …

Thomas Frank, talked about current events. Topics included President Obama, the Tea Party movement. He responded to telephone calls and electronic communications. C-SPAN Radio’s Nancy Calo r…

Panel three of the day-long America’s Future Now conference was titled, “Kick Them When they are Down? How the Right Plans to Come Back and What Can Be Done About It.” Panelists focused on h…

Thomas Frank, author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, published by Metropolitan Books, was interviewed about his book by Jeanne Cummings. Mr. Frank argued in his book that conse…

Portions of this program may contain language that may be offensive to some viewers. During the morning panel of the 2005 Campus Progress National Student Conference, a panel was held tit…

Mr. Frank talked about his book What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, published by Metropolitan. In his remarks he addressed thee widespread support, …

Author Thomas Frank talked about his book What’s the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, published by Metropolitan. He also responded to telephone calls, faxes,…

Thomas Frank spoke about his book, What’s the Matter with Kansas?, published by Metropolitan. In his book, he argues that Republicans have been able to gain the support of large numbers of p…

The panelists discussed the current state of politics. Thomas Frank wrote What’s the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America. Thai Jones wrote A Radical Line: From the…

Thomas Frank discussed his book One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy, published by Doubleday. In his book and talk, Mr. Frank criticiz…

Thomas Frank, editor of The Baffler Magazine, spoke about the variety of “faux populisms” in the United States. He focused particularly on how advertising fools people into thinking they hav…