Books
The Evolution of the Species
– Harper's Magazine, September 1981.The Right Stuff
– Douglas A. Jeffrey, Claremont Review of Books, Winter 1983.Excerpt: The right stuff is something that those who have it recognize in one another but do not and perhaps cannot speak of. More than expertise and more than daring, the right stuff is… More
Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died
– Forbes, 1996.Excerpt: Being a bit behind the curve, I had only just heard of the digital revolution last February when Louis Rossetto, cofounder of Wired magazine, wearing a shirt with no collar and his… More
Tom Wolfe on Charlie Rose
– Charlie Rose, November 19, 1996.Summary: A conversation with novelist Tom Wolfe about his writings on the future of technology.
Robert Noyce and His Congregation
– Forbes, August 1997.Excerpt: ROBERT NOYCE, INVENTOR OF THE silicon microchip and co-founder of Intel, grew up in Grinnell, Iowa, one of countless small towns in the Midwest that had been founded in the 19th… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Human Beast
– Jefferson Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006.Excerpt: Ladies and Gentlemen, this evening it is my modest intention to tell you in the short time we have together . . . everything you will ever need to know about the human beast. I… More
One Giant Leap to Nowhere
– New York Times, July 18, 2009.Excerpt: WELL, let’s see now … That was a small step for Neil Armstrong, a giant leap for mankind and a real knee in the groin for NASA. The American space program, the greatest,… More
The Kingdom of Speech
– New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2016.Summary from the publisher: Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,… More
The Origins of Speech
– Harper's Magazine, August 2016.Excerpt: Nobody in academia had ever witnessed or even heard of a performance like this before. In just a few years, in the early 1950s, a University of Pennsylvania graduate student — a… More
We’re Only Human
– Andrew Ferguson, Commentary, October 2016.Excerpt: The Kingdom of Speech is popular intellectual history of the most exhilarating kind. Its closest antecedents came along nearly 40 years ago, both of them also by Wolfe. The Painted… More
Essays
The Evolution of the Species
– Harper's Magazine, September 1981.The Right Stuff
– Douglas A. Jeffrey, Claremont Review of Books, Winter 1983.Excerpt: The right stuff is something that those who have it recognize in one another but do not and perhaps cannot speak of. More than expertise and more than daring, the right stuff is… More
Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died
– Forbes, 1996.Excerpt: Being a bit behind the curve, I had only just heard of the digital revolution last February when Louis Rossetto, cofounder of Wired magazine, wearing a shirt with no collar and his… More
Tom Wolfe on Charlie Rose
– Charlie Rose, November 19, 1996.Summary: A conversation with novelist Tom Wolfe about his writings on the future of technology.
Robert Noyce and His Congregation
– Forbes, August 1997.Excerpt: ROBERT NOYCE, INVENTOR OF THE silicon microchip and co-founder of Intel, grew up in Grinnell, Iowa, one of countless small towns in the Midwest that had been founded in the 19th… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Human Beast
– Jefferson Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006.Excerpt: Ladies and Gentlemen, this evening it is my modest intention to tell you in the short time we have together . . . everything you will ever need to know about the human beast. I… More
One Giant Leap to Nowhere
– New York Times, July 18, 2009.Excerpt: WELL, let’s see now … That was a small step for Neil Armstrong, a giant leap for mankind and a real knee in the groin for NASA. The American space program, the greatest,… More
The Kingdom of Speech
– New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2016.Summary from the publisher: Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,… More
The Origins of Speech
– Harper's Magazine, August 2016.Excerpt: Nobody in academia had ever witnessed or even heard of a performance like this before. In just a few years, in the early 1950s, a University of Pennsylvania graduate student — a… More
We’re Only Human
– Andrew Ferguson, Commentary, October 2016.Excerpt: The Kingdom of Speech is popular intellectual history of the most exhilarating kind. Its closest antecedents came along nearly 40 years ago, both of them also by Wolfe. The Painted… More
Commentary
The Evolution of the Species
– Harper's Magazine, September 1981.The Right Stuff
– Douglas A. Jeffrey, Claremont Review of Books, Winter 1983.Excerpt: The right stuff is something that those who have it recognize in one another but do not and perhaps cannot speak of. More than expertise and more than daring, the right stuff is… More
Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died
– Forbes, 1996.Excerpt: Being a bit behind the curve, I had only just heard of the digital revolution last February when Louis Rossetto, cofounder of Wired magazine, wearing a shirt with no collar and his… More
Tom Wolfe on Charlie Rose
– Charlie Rose, November 19, 1996.Summary: A conversation with novelist Tom Wolfe about his writings on the future of technology.
Robert Noyce and His Congregation
– Forbes, August 1997.Excerpt: ROBERT NOYCE, INVENTOR OF THE silicon microchip and co-founder of Intel, grew up in Grinnell, Iowa, one of countless small towns in the Midwest that had been founded in the 19th… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Human Beast
– Jefferson Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006.Excerpt: Ladies and Gentlemen, this evening it is my modest intention to tell you in the short time we have together . . . everything you will ever need to know about the human beast. I… More
One Giant Leap to Nowhere
– New York Times, July 18, 2009.Excerpt: WELL, let’s see now … That was a small step for Neil Armstrong, a giant leap for mankind and a real knee in the groin for NASA. The American space program, the greatest,… More
The Kingdom of Speech
– New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2016.Summary from the publisher: Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,… More
The Origins of Speech
– Harper's Magazine, August 2016.Excerpt: Nobody in academia had ever witnessed or even heard of a performance like this before. In just a few years, in the early 1950s, a University of Pennsylvania graduate student — a… More
We’re Only Human
– Andrew Ferguson, Commentary, October 2016.Excerpt: The Kingdom of Speech is popular intellectual history of the most exhilarating kind. Its closest antecedents came along nearly 40 years ago, both of them also by Wolfe. The Painted… More
Multimedia
The Evolution of the Species
– Harper's Magazine, September 1981.The Right Stuff
– Douglas A. Jeffrey, Claremont Review of Books, Winter 1983.Excerpt: The right stuff is something that those who have it recognize in one another but do not and perhaps cannot speak of. More than expertise and more than daring, the right stuff is… More
Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died
– Forbes, 1996.Excerpt: Being a bit behind the curve, I had only just heard of the digital revolution last February when Louis Rossetto, cofounder of Wired magazine, wearing a shirt with no collar and his… More
Tom Wolfe on Charlie Rose
– Charlie Rose, November 19, 1996.Summary: A conversation with novelist Tom Wolfe about his writings on the future of technology.
Robert Noyce and His Congregation
– Forbes, August 1997.Excerpt: ROBERT NOYCE, INVENTOR OF THE silicon microchip and co-founder of Intel, grew up in Grinnell, Iowa, one of countless small towns in the Midwest that had been founded in the 19th… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Human Beast
– Jefferson Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006.Excerpt: Ladies and Gentlemen, this evening it is my modest intention to tell you in the short time we have together . . . everything you will ever need to know about the human beast. I… More
One Giant Leap to Nowhere
– New York Times, July 18, 2009.Excerpt: WELL, let’s see now … That was a small step for Neil Armstrong, a giant leap for mankind and a real knee in the groin for NASA. The American space program, the greatest,… More
The Kingdom of Speech
– New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2016.Summary from the publisher: Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,… More
The Origins of Speech
– Harper's Magazine, August 2016.Excerpt: Nobody in academia had ever witnessed or even heard of a performance like this before. In just a few years, in the early 1950s, a University of Pennsylvania graduate student — a… More
We’re Only Human
– Andrew Ferguson, Commentary, October 2016.Excerpt: The Kingdom of Speech is popular intellectual history of the most exhilarating kind. Its closest antecedents came along nearly 40 years ago, both of them also by Wolfe. The Painted… More
Teaching
The Evolution of the Species
– Harper's Magazine, September 1981.The Right Stuff
– Douglas A. Jeffrey, Claremont Review of Books, Winter 1983.Excerpt: The right stuff is something that those who have it recognize in one another but do not and perhaps cannot speak of. More than expertise and more than daring, the right stuff is… More
Sorry, But Your Soul Just Died
– Forbes, 1996.Excerpt: Being a bit behind the curve, I had only just heard of the digital revolution last February when Louis Rossetto, cofounder of Wired magazine, wearing a shirt with no collar and his… More
Tom Wolfe on Charlie Rose
– Charlie Rose, November 19, 1996.Summary: A conversation with novelist Tom Wolfe about his writings on the future of technology.
Robert Noyce and His Congregation
– Forbes, August 1997.Excerpt: ROBERT NOYCE, INVENTOR OF THE silicon microchip and co-founder of Intel, grew up in Grinnell, Iowa, one of countless small towns in the Midwest that had been founded in the 19th… More
Hooking Up
– New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.Summary from Publisher: Only yesterday boys and girls spoke of embracing and kissing (necking) as getting to first base. Second base was deep kissing, plus groping and fondling this and… More
Hooking Up: What Life Was Like at the Turn of the Second Millennium: An American’s World
– Hooking Up (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000).Excerpt: By the year 2000, the term “working class” had fallen into disuse in the United States, and “proletariat” was so obsolete it was known only to a few bitter… More
I Am Charlotte Simmons
– New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 2004.Summary from Publisher: Dupont University-the Olympian halls of learning housing the cream of America’s youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition .… More
He is Charlotte Simmons
– Peter Berkowitz, Policy Review, February/March 2005.Excerpt: How little the radicalness of the sexual revolution has been appreciated and how much questioning its consequences is deemed bad manners or worse has been amply demonstrated by the… More
The Human Beast
– Jefferson Lecture, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2006.Excerpt: Ladies and Gentlemen, this evening it is my modest intention to tell you in the short time we have together . . . everything you will ever need to know about the human beast. I… More
One Giant Leap to Nowhere
– New York Times, July 18, 2009.Excerpt: WELL, let’s see now … That was a small step for Neil Armstrong, a giant leap for mankind and a real knee in the groin for NASA. The American space program, the greatest,… More
The Kingdom of Speech
– New York: Little, Brown & Company, 2016.Summary from the publisher: Tom Wolfe, whose legend began in journalism, takes us on an eye-opening journey that is sure to arouse widespread debate. THE KINGDOM OF SPEECH is a captivating,… More
The Origins of Speech
– Harper's Magazine, August 2016.Excerpt: Nobody in academia had ever witnessed or even heard of a performance like this before. In just a few years, in the early 1950s, a University of Pennsylvania graduate student — a… More
We’re Only Human
– Andrew Ferguson, Commentary, October 2016.Excerpt: The Kingdom of Speech is popular intellectual history of the most exhilarating kind. Its closest antecedents came along nearly 40 years ago, both of them also by Wolfe. The Painted… More