I suspect he has read zero Dennett or Blackmore ;-)
Jerry Coyne slices and dices Tom Wolfe. What was Wolfe thinking? Oh. He doesn't think, does he?http://goo.gl/QB9gaj
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I can't believe it... Tom Wolfe is still alive?
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@washingtonpost Ah, the perils of wandering too far afield from one's area/s of expertise'.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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you must mean like wolfe disrespected darwin
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Wolfe is a legendary writer, but anybody who's read him, knows his greatness is in writing style not his ideas.
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Wolfe's strength is observation of American society and writing about it with verve and wit. 1/2
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2/2 This is on full display in "Bonfire of the Vanities" but most critics will say it is not a great novel.
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I admit I haven't read Chomsky and his ideas on linguistics to comment. Wolfe could be right or wrong.
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True it's observations about 80's New York were quite good. -:)
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One wonders about the quality process of the publisher, when such obviously false tripe is published. If Wolfe had any actual
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