After two years as a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal, Thomas Frank is going to Harper's Magazine to write the "Easy Chair" column. His first one will appear in the December issue of that magazine.
It was great fun to write for The Journal, and I look forward to seeing you in Harper's this fall.
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August 11, 2010 |
That Republicans have succeeded in blaming government is testimony to their political brilliance.
By Thomas Frank
This is my last weekly column for the Wall Street Journal, and writing it has naturally put me in mind of my first efforts in this space, back in the summer of 2008.
Those were the days when economic disaster was beginning to unfold; it hit a crescendo in September of that year when Wall Street teetered and the government came to the rescue with a TARP.
By November, the nation's mood had soured enough that a senator from Illinois won the presidency even though he appeared to defy political convention in countless ways. And all the while, the front...
Continue reading at The Wall Street Journal... Those were the days when economic disaster was beginning to unfold; it hit a crescendo in September of that year when Wall Street teetered and the government came to the rescue with a TARP.
By November, the nation's mood had soured enough that a senator from Illinois won the presidency even though he appeared to defy political convention in countless ways. And all the while, the front...
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