Talking Rural America With Thomas Frank
Urban elites’ contempt for rural America is centuries old — but so is rural populist resistance.
2 Articles by: Thomas Frank
Thomas Frank is a political analyst, historian, and journalist. He co-founded and edited The Baffler magazine. Author of The People, No: A Brief History of Anti-Populism.
Populism Belongs to the Left
In an interview, writer Thomas Frank discusses how populism brought together workers, farmers, and all those struggling against the wealthy for a more egalitarian society — and why that’s made it a dirty word for the elite, both in the 1890s and today.