Author of "Listen, Liberal" and "The People, No." Once upon a time from Kansas.
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very lively and fun new episode of @ttsgpod with Thomas Frank. @Tyler_A_Harper and I talk to him about his new book THE CREATIVITY CON. A whole lot of talk about the construction of the "creative class," his time starting the Baffler Magazine, and Obama. goodbye.substack.com/p/the-c…
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This was a super fun conversation with @thomasfrank_ about the cult of innovation, the “creative class,” and the broken promises of post-industrial society, from the 1950s to Obama and AI.
very lively and fun new episode of @ttsgpod with Thomas Frank. @Tyler_A_Harper and I talk to him about his new book THE CREATIVITY CON. A whole lot of talk about the construction of the "creative class," his time starting the Baffler Magazine, and Obama. goodbye.substack.com/p/the-c…
Join me in KC tomorrow as I talk about this new book of mine, "The Creativity Con." Details in the link
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Hello. I will be in New York on Monday night, talking about “The Creativity Con” at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge. I hope you can join me. Sign up at this link: ipk.nyu.edu/events/
Americans love to talk about thinking different and the power of the human imagination, but from the Cold War right down to yesterday’s announcement about AI, these same ideas have also served as the self-justification of our post-industrial plutocracy.
Instead what they did was build a class of pseudo-enlightened white-collar “creatives” whom we were constantly urged to admire and respect—even as actual creative workers went to the wall and blue-collar America watched its way of life come to an end.
It is the story of the biggest, loudest, buzziest buzzwords of them all: Creativity & Innovation, and our seventy year infatuation with these two ideas. “The Creativity Con” traces all the things we have imagined these words mean and all the things we have done in their name.
Thomas Frank retweeted
#StraightOuttaPolitics
(formerly The Compton Jay Show)
The Impact of 3rd parties on Democracy
In a duopoly, the 2 parties agree NOT to talk about certain issues, the most important ones
"Winning" isn't the objective
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Thomas Frank retweeted
8/ Twenty years ago in One Market Under God @thomasfrank_ revealed how tech magnates were co-opting countercultural rhetoric to protect themselves from regulation.
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As per @thomasfrank_ in @guardian: "If it does indeed turn out that the lab-leak hypothesis is the right explanation for how it began—that the common people of the world have been forced into a real-life lab experiment, at tremendous cost—there is a moral earthquake on the way".
Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab - but feared debate could hurt ‘international harmony’ telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01…
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Pity the Billionaire by @thomasfrank_. Good quick read. PLEASE GOD get the audiobook read by the author because it might be one of the most entertaining 5 hours you'll have this year. Also he basically lines up the coming Trump era like some kind of Cassandra.
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Part 2 with Thomas Tha God 🙌🏾 @thomasfrank_
(I still get misty about the mental picture he painted of the strike scene in Decatur, IL 🥺)
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De livre en livre depuis plus de 15 ans, @thomasfrank_ fait le portrait, en positif et en négatif, du glorieux héritage populiste des classes laborieuses et des classes moyennes diplômées qui leur ont succédé dans le cœur triste des partis « de gauche » => agone.org/auteurs/thomas_fra…
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Meanwhile, the Democratic Party has abandoned the working class and become party of the elite coastal clerisy. As @thomasfrank_ asks in the subtitle of Listen Liberal, “What Ever Happened to the Party of the People?” The VA election should be a wake-up call. – at Tamalpais Valley, CA
this starts in 20 minutes; it's going to be a lot of fun.
🗓️ Tomorrow, 9:30 AM ET: We're excited to discuss the new #WorldProtests study with @inespohl, @WaldenBello, Alejandra Alayza @OxfamenPeru, @Owen4ituc, @TinasheMazala, and @thomasfrank_.
Join us: bit.ly/3GZNNoF
