Thomas Frank

Thomas Frank
Frank at the 2012 Texas Book Festival
Born	Thomas Carr Frank (1965-03-21) March 21, 1965 (age 59) Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Virginia (B.A.) University of Chicago (M.A., Ph.D.)
Occupation(s)	Political analyst, columnist, historian, journalist
Known for	Co-founder of The Baffler, culture war author
Notable work	What's the Matter with Kansas?
Political party	Democratic

Thomas Carr Frank (born March 21, 1965) is an American political analyst, historian, and journalist. He co-founded and edited The Baffler magazine. Frank is the author of the books What's the Matter with Kansas? (2004) and Listen, Liberal (2016), among others. From 2008 to 2010 he wrote "The Tilting Yard", a column in The Wall Street Journal.

A historian of culture and ideas, Frank analyzes trends in American electoral politics and propaganda, advertising, popular culture, mainstream journalism, and economics. His topics include the rhetoric and impact of culture wars in American political life and the relationship between politics, economics, and culture in the United States.