[lbo-talk] Thomas Frank's state of the union

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 1 10:19:24 PDT 2006


On Sep 1, 2006, at 9:32 AM, Carl Remick wrote:


> Peter Beinart is (unintentionally) entertaining all right, but I
> don't get the bit about "his reasoning must be heard." Last time I
> checked Beinart was a Cold War nostalgist and eminently ignorable.
> Must have been an off day for T. Frank.

Maybe not. Tom recently refused to blurb a book by an old friend of his who wrote several pieces for The Baffler over the years. He claimed to be too busy, but that's hard to believe if he had time for Beinart and this other old Dem. My guess is that he's trying to distance himself from the "radical" left.

Doug



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