Tag Archives: Tom Wolfe
Neo-McLuhanism: Wired, Coupland, and Wolfe
Marshall McLuhan popped into my mind at JFK as I watched the boarding call for my flight to Cairo on Egypt Air. The effects of media on human behavior: I remembered a passage where McLuhan says a print-based culture tends to produce … Continue reading
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The Wolfe Tells Larry He Should’ve Barked
Another great Wolfe interview–does he have a new publicist?–this time for the National Association of Scholars. Wolfe recounts the Larry Summers gaffe. He raises a point that speaks to the weakness of Jonathan Haidt’s theory of political psychology. The intuitions … Continue reading
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Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing The Incredible Hulk
Yes, it’s true, Tom Wolfe used to appear in Marvel comic books.
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Shanghaiing Tom Wolfe in a Cafe
Whoever this intrepid new media interviewer is, I want to thank him. I can’t tell for sure, but based on what’s said in the interview, it would seem this excited fan found Tom Wolfe in Argentina and then persuaded him … Continue reading
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Wolfe’s on Greenwich Time
I can’t think of another novelist whose opinion on social matters is sought out like an oracle’s. (Could it be because he’s the last great hope for social realism in literature?) Imagine newspapers calling up Philip Roth and asking him … Continue reading
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Hedge Fund Managers Deserve Their Salaries Because They’re Smarter
The ever insightful Richard Posner writes: I do not think that the government does bear much responsibility for the crisis. I fear that the responsibility falls almost entirely on the private sector. The people running financial institutions, along with financial … Continue reading
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