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How Creativity and Innovation Became America's Biggest Grift / Thomas Frank

Nov 10
They’re selling a social class. They’re selling the achievements of that class. They’re telling you why these people who dominate us as never before…and inequality is worse than it’s ever been since they started measuring it. Why is that OK? Because those people are ‘innovators.’

Thomas Frank returns to discuss his new book, The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America's Biggest Racket, available now from Penguin.

"Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.

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Guest

Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank is the bestselling author of What’s the Matter With Kansas?; Listen, Liberal; The People, No; and other books. Frank is a founding editor of The Baffler, a former columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and has written regularly for Harper’s, The Guardian, and Le Monde Diplomatique. He lives outside Washington, DC.

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