Thomas Frank returns to discuss his new book, The Creativity Con: How Innovation Became America's Biggest Racket, available now from Penguin.
"Rotten History" from Renaldo Migaldi follows the interview.
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Thomas Frank is the bestselling author of What’s the Matter With Kansas?; Listen, Liberal; The People, No; and other books. Frank is a founding editor of The Baffler, a former columnist for The Wall Street Journal, and has written regularly for Harper’s, The Guardian, and Le Monde Diplomatique. He lives outside Washington, DC.