Photos of the event Founding editor of The Baffler and author of The Conquest of Cool and One Market Under God Thursday, February 13th at 6:00pm McCormick Tribune Center 1870 Campus Drive Northwestern University Evanston Campus [map]

Unless otherwise noted, all articles are by Thomas Frank

ONLINE FEATURES

The Baffler

The Baffler Magazine #14: "The God That Sucked" The Baffler Magazine #7 (1995): "A Machine for Forgetting: Kansas City and the Declining Significance of Place" The Baffler online

For more essays from The Baffler pick-up Commodify Your Dissent, Salvos from The Baffler (Norton). Edited by Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland, with a foreword by Lewis Lapham. ISBN: 0-393-31673-4 $15.00

One Market Under God

6.9.01: "Guds eget marked" A review in Dansk (Danish) for Politiken by Lars Bang Larsen 3.19.01: David Graeber reviews One Market Under God for In These Times Spring, 2001: Michael Bérubé chimes in for the inaugural issue of The Common Review 1.28.01: Molly Ivins reviews One Market Under God for the Naples Daily News 12.21.00: "The Little Guy Is on His Mind" [$] An Author Savagely Indicts Notions of a New Economy, a review by John Schwartz for The New York Times 12.18.00: Michael King reviews One Market Under God for The American Prospect 11.24.00: Brendan Bernhard reviews One Market Under God for LA Weekly 11.3.00: Book critic Maureen Corrigan reviews One Market Under God for Fresh Air on NPR (audio only) 10.15.00: Kirkus Reviews puts One Market Under God on its cover 9.00: "The Bullshit Economy" A review by Mike Davis for The Village Voice 7.31.00: Ron Rosenbaum reviews One Market Under God for The New York Observer 7.31.00: Nicholas von Hoffman reviews One Market Under God for The New York Observer

The Conquest of Cool

Chapter one can be found at The University of Chicago Press' website 11.30.97: "Consumer Counterculture" A review by Gerald Marzorati for The New York Times

In These Times

5.27.96: "Textual Reckoning" The high theorists of poststructuralism often veer toward—and sometimes beyond—high silliness.

Context

Issue 6: "All Good No Bad"

Issue 2: "Marching with Mammon"

Harper's Magazine
One cover essay, two reviews, and one reading

1.02: "The Trillion-Dollar Hustle, Hello Wall Street, goodbye Social Security"

5.00: "To The Dot-Com Station"
Rebranding Britain with American quackery

10.99: "It's Globalicious!"
Two servings, half-baked, of the new economy

11.97: "The Marriage Of Hip And Square"
An excerpt from chapter one of The Conquest of Cool

The New York Times

12.22.01: "Totally Extreme Taliban"

10.29.00: "It's a Small World"

Harvard Business Review

9.01: Management Theory-or Theology?
Harris Collingwood has a conversation with Thomas Frank (PDF).

The Nation

4.8.02: "Shocked, Shocked! Enronian Myths Exposed" Those who place the blame on executive greed may be missing the larger point 10.30.00: "The Rise of Market Populism, America's New Secular Religion" (cover article) It offers a blatant apologia for economic inequality-but few question the faith

The Washington Post

9.23.01: Gathering Moss, a review of The Decline From Rebellion To Nostalgia by John Strausbaugh (Verso) [$]

10.1.00: To Market, a review of Democracy At Risk, Rescuing Main Street From Wall Street by Jeff Gates (Perseus), and When Genius Failed, The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein (Random House) [$]

The Chicago Reader

Thomas Frank wrote a column for The Chicago Reader called "Capital Lies".

5.8.98: "Down With the Ship"
How Titanic's warped take on class conflict makes Americans feel like the egalitarians we aren't.

12.26.97: "Power to the People"

3.7.97: "Lost in the Super Market"
In the age of business, questions of good and evil come down to a choice between brand names.

12.27.96: "So You Say You're a Populist"
Populism is thriving as a style. What has become, though, of populism as politics?

Interviews

Danny Postel interviews Thomas Frank on Free Associations Radio (audio). The link is under Commodify Your Dissent, eighth from the top.

8.12.01: Wen Stephenson, managing editor of FRONTLINE's website, interviews Thomas Frank

12.6.00: The San Francisco Bay Guardian chats with Thomas Frank

12.4-7.00: Thomas Frank leads a four-day e-mail exchange with David Brooks of The Weekly Standard

11.21-22.00: AlterNet lures Thomas Frank into a Starbucks, while Salon takes him to Old Navy

12.99: Charlie Bertsch talks with Thomas Frank for issue 46 of Bad Subjects

11.98: Casey Walker, founding editor of Wild Duck Review, does the Q&A thing with Thomas Frank. Posted online by Media Channel

INFLUENCES

Barbara Ehrenreich
"Nickel and Dimed, On (Not) Getting By in America."
The first eleven pages of chapter one

Chris Lehmann
"Red vs. Blue, How The Culture Wars Killed Populism". First delivered in 1998 at a conference on the future of left politics. "From Appeal to Reason", a collection of articles from In These Times.

Norman Mailer
"The White Negro, Superficial Reflections on the Hipster". Mailer's famous 1957 essay.

Danny Postel
A writer currently at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Clio got to meet Mr. Postel at the event. List of articles and interviews by Danny Postel can be found in the Topic Resources section of our site.