For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. – Thomas Frank
Selling public property is the true Chicago way. Had Mr. Obama not been elected president, the nations business journals would be falling over one another to praise his city for its daring, market-friendly innovations. – 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
Acknowledging class was always difficult for New Democrats – it was second-wave, it was divisive – but 2008 made retro politics cool again. – Thomas Frank