I chanced to reread Radical Chic a few weeks ago and can only support the exhortation that everyone should treat themselves to Wolfe’s magnificent flaying of the insufferably smug liberal elite of years past. History may not exactly repeat itself, but it sure can rhyme!
The parallels with 1968 are in some ways almost too neat. A weakened Democrat incumbent facing off against a Republican who is the most hated man in the world by the left, and Robert Kennedy trying to upset the Democratic primary. And a Democrat convention in Chicago just waiting to turn ugly.
Far out, Man!
Except where can we find a stylist like Tom Wolfe these days?
I chanced to reread Radical Chic a few weeks ago and can only support the exhortation that everyone should treat themselves to Wolfe’s magnificent flaying of the insufferably smug liberal elite of years past. History may not exactly repeat itself, but it sure can rhyme!
The parallels with 1968 are in some ways almost too neat. A weakened Democrat incumbent facing off against a Republican who is the most hated man in the world by the left, and Robert Kennedy trying to upset the Democratic primary. And a Democrat convention in Chicago just waiting to turn ugly.
Far out, Man!
Except where can we find a stylist like Tom Wolfe these days?