Counterpoints

Since the 1960s, academia and the arts have gone in one direction, while the masses another. It was in the 1960s that liberalism took its seemingly permanent hard left turn away from the relatively moderate New Deal that tied together the eras of FDR, Harry Truman and JFK, and simultaneously, Bill Buckley’s brand of post-WWII modern conservatism was just beginning to reach fruition.

You can see one aspect of this juncture in Tom Wolfe’s Radical Chic from 1969: Leonard and Felicia Bernstein, Barbara Walters, Ingo Preminger, and host of other media and New York society figures gathered in the Bernstein