Thomas Frank, journalist, a founding editor of The Baffler, a former columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and the author of several books, including What’s the Matter With Kansas? and his latest, The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America's Biggest Racket (Penguin Press, 2026) talks about his new book that traces the roots of America's belief it must lead in technological innovation to the Cold War and argues that's a losing argument for workers, plus responds to the electoral shift in Kansas and other states and whether that represents a return to left-wing populism in the Midwest.
Photo: Thomas Frank, author of the bestseller "What's the Matter with Kansas" at his home in Tenleytown in 2004. (Susan Biddle/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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