For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to the desperate. – Thomas Frank
When the entertainers of the Right arent declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, theyre pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call the Chicago way. – Thomas Frank
In America, we no longer have an institutionalized, organized way of calling business to task – of taking them to account for what theyve done – and this is especially true in the cultural realm. – Thomas Frank
The only truly individualistic health-care choice – where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone elses funds – is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them. – Thomas Frank
When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of mans soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances. – Thomas Carlyle