Reflections On Language | E.J. Spode | 3AM | 1st October 2016

Glorious demolition of Tom Wolfe’s book, The Kingdom Of Speech, which was Wolfe’s attempt to demolish the reputations of Chomsky and Darwin. “It is a literary Sharknado of error and self-satisfaction. It careens between being hilariously bad and tragically bad. It is irredeemable. If a fact checker removed all the howlers, there would be nothing left. Wolfe’s goal was to smash one or two of our intellectual icons, and an icon did end up smashed to pieces. Wolfe is that icon”