Tuesday at the Plaza Library: Thomas Frank

The Baffler founder, What’s the Matter with Kansas? author, and native Kansas Citian Thomas Frank has been ahead of the curve on nearly every socio-political-economic topic on which he’s weighed in over the last 30 years. He was especially correct in 2016, when he published Listen Liberal, which critiqued the Democratic Party’s abandonment of the working class. Trump, of course, subsequently won by capturing many of those working-class voters, and since his election Frank has continued to write feverishly about the failings of neoliberal politics. He returns to his hometown this evening to read from his latest, Rendezvous with Oblivion: Reports from a Sinking Society, a collection of essays on inequality in America.

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Thomas Frank

Tuesday, July 17, 6:30 p.m.

Kansas City Public Library, Plaza Branch. More info here.