Wolfe Howling, or The Metamorphosis of Charlotte Simmons

Tom Wolfe offers a chilling picture of the postmodern multiversity and its impact on the souls of the young. Seizing upon the motif of neuroscience, Wolfe shows how the twin kingdoms of darkness—Jerusalem and Athens—have been routed by a simple but virile Darwinian analysis in which man is fully explainable in terms of evolutionary biology. In his chronicle, Wolfe reveals that the multiversity has become a site of metamorphosis... a place where whatever traces of nobility and connection to what is higher are expunged by a regime that denies transcendence and recognizes nothing but the struggle for dominance

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