I happen to believe that Tom Wolfe is one of America’s most perceptive and skilled writers. He is not a particularly pleasant writer and because of some of the graphic portrayals of life and language he uses in his novels, I do not recommend him to most readers. Nevertheless, his criticism of a culture drowning in soft-headed political correctness is of special importance because he remains one of America's most respected novelists, even among America’s liberal intelligentsia. Sure, they desperately want to dismiss those parts of his work which stress conservative themes and they particularly try to rationalize away his scathing attacks of many of the left's pet projects. Still, his insight and sheer talent keep even the mainstream media enthralled.
Here’s an example of what liberals would love to erase from the Tom Wolfe canon – It is a brief but potent critique of Darwinism from his non-fiction book, Hooking Up.
Speaking of cracks in the “great wall” of evolution, Wolfe writes, “This, science’s Ultimate Skepticism, has been spreading…Over the past two years even Darwinism, a scared tenet among American scientists for the past seventy years, has been beset by…doubts. Scientists, notably the mathematician David Berlinski and the biochemist Michael Behe, have begin attacking Darwinism as a mere theory, not a scientific discovery, a theory woefully unsupported by fossil evidence and featuring, at the core of its logic, sheer mush…”
