What's the Matter with Kansas

The hot buzz book in lefty circles right now, Thomas Frank offers a provocative theory on why many American conservatives vote against their own economic interests. He re-frames the current political clash as a struggle between classes, over the rightful claim to who is the authentic American.

He doesn't spend enough time looking at the psyche of the American evangelical, who he caricatures accurately enough but doesn't understand internally. The rest of his book is spot on: entertaining, insightful, and I want to re-read it with a notebook in hand.

File under books/ Thu Jan 20 08:40:43 CT 2005