false33510620805079882978080507988326385The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule
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30845Thomas Frank263241000falseWed Aug 06 00:00:00 -0700 2003Fri Mar 27 10:57:45 -0700 2009Mon Mar 30 10:53:05 -0700 2009
STOP SMILING interview with Thomas Frank:
We're Not in Kansas Anymore By JC Gabel
Whether Thomas Frank has enough time to think about it or not, he is a hero to underground publishers. He's also an author, a lecturer and, on most afternoons, an outspoken social critic.
Fifteen years ago, Frank started The Baffler, a journal of cultural criticism, in his undergraduate dorm room at the University of Virginia. The Baffler's intelligent look at American culture immediately garnered a fervent readership around the country. In the late 80s, Frank moved the fledgling magazine to the cozy South Side Chicago neighborhood of Hyde Park, home to the University of Chicago where, in 1994, he received his Ph.D. in U.S. History.
In 1997, after years of underground publishing, Frank and fellow Baffler cohort Matt Weiland edited and released Commodify Your Dissent: Salvos from the Baffler (W.W. Norton). Frank and Co. seized the day and gained access to a wider audience...