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Nick Lichtenberg

Two decades ago, he asked what's the matter with Kansas? Now he's back to look at the 70-year con of 'creativity' and 'innovation'

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“Look at this sweatshirt,” Thomas Frank says over a video interview from his study in Bethesda, Md. He pulls at his maroon hoodie, which he’d just picked up from a thrift store the other day. The badge on his chest reads “Innovation Fitness.”

“These words are everywhere now,” he says with his ever-present smile and laugh. “It’s total saturation.”

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