COMMENTARY: Dismayed by USA Today report on airports Oct 8, 2009
The title of the article in question is Feds keep little-used airports in business, by Thomas Frank. Frank either didn't do very much research into his topic or had a hidden agenda, because his story painted a very bias and tainted image of the federal airport improvement plan. (Benson San Pedro Valley News Sun, AZ)
GOPs ex-Senate leader Bill Frist says he backs health reform Oct 5, 2009
In his scathing Wall Street Journal column on The Post articles last week, Thomas Frank crystallized the gap between Obamas pledge and this reality. There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallerys version of the Barack Obama Hope poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
The Left Should Reclaim Freedom, Thomas Frank, The Wall Street Journal Sep 19, 2009
Thomas Frank: The Left Should Reclaim Freedom - WSJ.com ... Thomas Frank was born and raised in Kansas City. (Harper's Magazine)
Visual arts shows and events this fall Sep 13, 2009
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Got $25,000? Bid on Palin charity dinner Sep 5, 2009
Guest host Ana Marie Cox is joined by Wall Street Journal columnist Thomas Frank. Slideshow. (MSNBC -- Politics)
Smooth, Segway Jul 9, 2009
Commentator Thomas Frank told the New York Times that the Segway has a "redolence of New Economy foolishness. It's as though being a responsible adult is a burden of the working class," while moneyed knowledge-workers "get to posture as special, exalted beings of wonder and innocence." More recently, the Segway was forced to bear the full brunt of whatever humor was present in the transcendently bad (and not-paradoxically box-office-topping) film , with the very sight of Kevin James astride (or... (Slate)
Rx: Prairie Marxism Jun 1, 2009
How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, Thomas Frank, Metropolitan Books, 307 pages ... Everything from Pizza Hut to the Civil War started here, and today Kansas is on the bleeding edge of trends ranging from globalization (and immigration) to corporate scandals (think Sprint) to the phenomenon that Thomas Frank calls the backlash. (The American Conservative)
Left, right can have an amicable divorce May 16, 2009
In his book, "What's the Matter with Kansas?" Thomas Frank give an analysis of the difference in the thinking between the left and right ... In his book, "What's the Matter with Kansas?" Thomas Frank give an analysis of the difference in the thinking between the left and right. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Bipartisan Policy Center Announces Politics on Film Panelists May 9, 2009
Meanwhile, an idealistic farmer revives Kansas' progressive tradition, taking his message all the way to Washington, D.C. Based on Thomas Frank's book, which was on the New York Times best-seller list for 38 weeks ... Panelists: Cameron Lynch, Executive Vice President of the BPC; Thomas Frank, Author of "What's the Matter with Kansas?"; John Feehery, President of The Feehery Group; Joe Winston, Filmmaker. (PR Newswire)
