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North Korea, Johnson tells the picaresque and moving story of Jun Do, a man who lives according to the violent dictates of the state. After serving as a soldier, a surveillance officer and even a kidnapper, Jun Do suddenly — dangerously — finds himself...
Over time, however, this strategy created a base that really believed in all the hokum — and now the party elite has lost control. You’ll recognize that “appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax...
MUNICH, GERMANY - JULY 12: Renata Kochta and her boyfriend Thomas Frank attend the P1 Summerparty at P1 on July 12, 2011 in Munich, Germany. View Photo »
you say Romney is an unprincipled faker ... Fair enough – he is. He’s so plastic he’s almost animatronic.
News is the only conservative channel, so the audiences of MSNBC, CNN and HLN should be counted as liberal. These people exist on the Dem side too. See anyone who’s a vociferous, but moderate on policy, Democrat. What did Marx do to Hegel anyway? Turned...
Some, like Alex Marvel of FOX Sports, have reported that he has already been hired, although others say that is not necessarily the case. According to Jim Thomas, nothing is official yet: jthom1Jim Thomas Frank Cignetti, most recently with Rutgers, is...
We are living in an age of catastrophic intellectual malfunction.
The panel was inspired by a Pew Research Center poll that found that only 22 percent of Americans now trust the federal government, despite large majorities its facets like the Post Office and NASA. Panel moderators Donovan Hohn and Thomas Frank...
On Sunday, we were proud to debut the AlterNet Radio Hour, hosted by Joshua Holland, on We Act Radio in Washington DC. It's a weekly show featuring progressive journalists, activists and maybe a few wonks. Among our first guests was Thomas Frank, a...
Thomas Frank (born 1965) is an American author and journalist who writes about politics, culture, and the relationship between these phenomena. His writings, which draw upon his training as a historian of culture and ideas, analyze trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism and... Full Article
you say Romney is an unprincipled faker ... Fair enough – he is. He’s so plastic he’s almost animatronic.
We are living in an age of catastrophic intellectual malfunction.
