June 8, 2020
by Fr. John A. Perricone
Only the gifted pen of a Tom Wolfe could have minted the generation-defining sobriquet, radical chic. It first appeared in a long monograph in New York magazine in 1970, where the author wrote a withering piece describing a fashionable cocktail party at the West Side apartment of Leonard Bernstein. The impresario had invited the glitterati [...]
April 9, 2010
by Simcha Fisher
...a sleeping fly covered in dew. "In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death." -- Thomas Wolfe I don't actually know what he means [...]
August 12, 2022
