Acknowledging class was always difficult for New Democrats – it was second-wave, it was divisive – but 2008 made retro politics cool again. – Thomas Frank
Back in the days when the market was a kind of secular god and all the world thrilled to behold the amazing powers of private capital, the idea of privatizing highways and airports and other bits of our transportation infrastructure made a certain kind of sense. – Thomas Frank
Liberal that I am, I support health-care reform on its merits alone. My liberal blood boils, for example, when I read that half of the personal bankruptcies in this country are brought on, in part, by medical expenses. – Thomas Frank
There is much to dislike about President Obamas approach to the financial crisis. But opposition, it seems, will have to come from somewhere other than conservatism. The party out of power is also a party out of touch. – Thomas Frank
I really wanted to do something positive on the Internet. I wanted to try to get young people talking about, thinking about, lifes big questions-make it cool and OK to wonder about the heart, the soul and free will and God and death and big topics like that, big human topics. – Rainn Wilson