1. To All the Late Lamented Boys and Girls of Summer
(Opinions/Society)

...und again…. Cassidy had long been a cultural touchstone. A dozen writers based characters on him. Journalist Tom Wolfe spread his fame in that classic of new journalism, The Electric Kool-aid Acid Tes...

2. 'It could've been all different, Jack... You got to believe that'
(Opinions/op-ed)

...r satire. But what Majors is really up to in this 475 page book---which does contain formidable humor in the Tom Wolfe tradition---is tragedy. In that way he resembles the great social realism novelis...

3. Triggering a Silent Scream
(Opinions/Humor)

...ntes Ball in the Hamptons. Crazier than naked flagpole sitters in a blizzard. They bought into their own Tom Wolfe "Masters of the Universe" BS. Mesmerized by the siren song of a little ...

4. UFOs? That's a good question, Tim
(Opinions/op-ed)

...post-apocalypsekandy-kolored tangerine-flake streamline flying getaway gizmo. (OK, I stole some of that from Tom Wolfe.) Never mind that the question has nothing on earth to do with the mess we're fac...