Author: Thomas Frank

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For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate.

- Thomas Frank

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances.

- Thomas Frank

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

- Thomas Frank

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

Money has transformed every watchdog, every independent authority. Medical doctors are increasingly gulled by the lobbying of pharmaceutical salesmen.

- Thomas Frank

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.

Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will not fool ourselves that stupid bankers sank conservatism for good.

- Thomas Frank

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