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An Ornament of Our Dingy Office

William Dean Howells called it his “Uneasy Chair.” Lewis H. Lapham thought it “a column always grotesquely misnamed.” Bernard DeVoto simply wanted to do something else—a books section—and tried to fob…

The Pessimistic Style in American Politics

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Thomas Frank

Government of the people? Thomas Frank on the history of populism and anti-populism

Inside the November Issue

by James Marcus,

Thomas Frank on how the media exterminates political reform, Trudy Lieberman on the fate of Medicare, Chris Offutt on the changing face of Appalachia, a story by Stephen Dixon, and more

Richard Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” (1964)

by Harper’s Magazine,

“American politics has often been an arena for angry minds.”

Chicago Is the Future

by Thomas Frank,

It was in 1988 that I moved to the bedraggled neighborhood of Hyde Park in order to study American history at the University of Chicago. I left the city ten…

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An Ornament of Our Dingy Office

The Pessimistic Style in American Politics

Inside the November Issue

Richard Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics” (1964)

Chicago Is the Future

December 2013

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