Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers by Tom Wolfe (1987-12-26)

This goes all the way back to, I'm sure that some of us have read Tom Wolfe's Radical Chic. This is all just radical chic. The single greatest political essay ever written.

You know, there's a very famous essay by Tom Wolfe. It's maybe the best political essay of all time. It's called Radical Chic. It was originally printed in New York Magazine.

And that party was Leonard Bernstein and his then wife. And they get together in a penthouse with a bunch of Black Panthers. This is a cover story for New York Magazine.

And the whole thing is hysterically funny because it is a bunch of upper crust radical leftists who have benefited from the systems of the United States patronizing the Black Panthers who show up and are telling them how white pigs should be killed and all the white people are just clapping for them.

I'm sure that you have read Tom Wolfe's Radical Chic.

You know who satirized this really well was Tom Wolf.

He wrote a book and he described it called Radical Chic.

Yeah, it's a lot of very wealthy sort of old money involved in this.

And they're just doing it as like, like he said, like a pose, a posture.

And it just becomes sort of the thing to do, you know, in Manhattan.