Baffler event in Chicago

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Mon Dec 10 19:11:18 PST 2001


The Baffler magazine, rising like Phoenix out of the fire of its former abode, is holding a reading/event at Danny's Tavern (complete with neon Schlitz sign outside) Wednesday. Thomas Frank, among others, will be there. http://noslander.com/dannys.html

Frank is quoted in this review of Jonathan "Oprah-spurner" Franzen's book The Corrections. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n24/ohag2324.htm

"Americans imagined that economic democracy meant a reasonable standard of living for all - that freedom was only meaningful once poverty and powerlessness had been overcome. Today, however, American opinion leaders seem generally convinced that democracy and the free market are simply identical . . . What is 'new' is this idea's triumph over all its rivals; the determination of America's world leaders to extend it to all the world; the general belief that there is something natural, something divine, something inherently democratic about markets. A better term for the 'New Economy' might simply be 'consensus'."



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