My one useful prediction for today….
Thomas Frank‘s lecture fee just tripled. UPDATE: More on this point here, here, here, and here. ANOTHER UPDATE: Hmmm…. perhaps someone at the the New York Times op-ed page has been reading this blog. Glenn Reynolds reminds me to link to Josh Chafetz’s takedown of Frank’s thesis in The New York Times Book Review. However, ...
Thomas Frank's lecture fee just tripled. UPDATE: More on this point here, here, here, and here. ANOTHER UPDATE: Hmmm.... perhaps someone at the the New York Times op-ed page has been reading this blog. Glenn Reynolds reminds me to link to Josh Chafetz's takedown of Frank's thesis in The New York Times Book Review. However, that doesn't vitiate my argument that Frank's star going to be on the rise in the market of public intellectuals, for three reasons. First, regardless of whether Frank's normative distaste of the free market is correct, his positive analysis -- that Red State voters identify with the Republicans because of cultural issues -- seems pretty trenchant. Second, Frank's materialist theory of politics plays well in the places that will pay for Frank to talk. Third, contra Chafetz, I can't completely dismiss Frank's thesis -- that economic populism might resonate with Red State voters.
Thomas Frank‘s lecture fee just tripled. UPDATE: More on this point here, here, here, and here. ANOTHER UPDATE: Hmmm…. perhaps someone at the the New York Times op-ed page has been reading this blog. Glenn Reynolds reminds me to link to Josh Chafetz’s takedown of Frank’s thesis in The New York Times Book Review. However, that doesn’t vitiate my argument that Frank’s star going to be on the rise in the market of public intellectuals, for three reasons. First, regardless of whether Frank’s normative distaste of the free market is correct, his positive analysis — that Red State voters identify with the Republicans because of cultural issues — seems pretty trenchant. Second, Frank’s materialist theory of politics plays well in the places that will pay for Frank to talk. Third, contra Chafetz, I can’t completely dismiss Frank’s thesis — that economic populism might resonate with Red State voters.
Daniel W. Drezner is a professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and co-host of the Space the Nation podcast. Twitter: @dandrezner
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