Author Thomas Frank reflects on the end of the Bill O’Reilly era. The development of O’Reilly’s persona. The renewed Sanders and Clinton battle. The bizarre anti Sanders bias of some of the Democratic elite. The Democratic elites failed belief in big data. Why Elizabeth Warren needs to run for President. The cult of the curator. […]

Thomas Frank author of The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism, explains the main takeaways from Thomas Piketty’s book, what Piketty gets right and wrong, why the debate on inequality is over, the importance of the Estate Tax? Mad Men and the “conquest of cool”, punk rock and how punk rock […]

Sarah Jaffe, explained the origins of the fast food workers strike in New York City, the impossibility of living off of fast food wages and low paying jobs become middle class jobs through organizing. Also Sam took apart a plutocrat Donahue Peeples on Up With Chris last winter and he gave an incredible play by […]

Thomas Frank explained why the mainstream Democratic Party rejects populism, the succes of the rights toxic social populism and how our economic debates are no longer empirical. Sam and Thomas reminisced

Author of What’s the Matter with Kansas Thomas Frank revisits the conservative state of Kansas where the wealthy are excused from income tax and the tea

Author Thomas Frank on the crisis of accountability plaguing our nation.  How the elite handle crisis management, the corrupting force of money and the

Welcome to the week! Hope everyone enjoyed the holiday weekend!  Sam’s feeling a bit under the weather today so we have an abbreviated show for you but with NEW, FRESH content!  Sam talks to author Thomas Frank about his books Pity the Billionaire & What’s the Matter with Kansas, Occupy Wall Street and more. Tune in. MERCH has […]