Welcome back to the Ten Blocks podcast.

This is John Tierney.

I'm a contributing editor to City Journal, where I've

just published an article about a new documentary film about Tom Wolfe that's opening in theaters

this weekend in New York City and next weekend in Los Angeles. The documentary titled Radical

Wolf is a superbly entertaining and smart film, And I am just delighted to have a chance to discuss

it with the director of Richard Dewey, who's a writer and a filmmaker based in New York. His first

film, Burden, was a feature documentary about the art world provocateur Chris Burden. It premiered at the

2016 Tribeca Film Festival, was a special selection at Art Basel, and it received a

global theatrical release in May 2017. His student film, The Leisure Class, was adapted into a feature

film produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. He also directed the short film Larry Bell artist,

narrated by John McEnroe. Rich is also an experienced writer. His articles have appeared in The Economist, Bloomberg, Businessweek, Rolling Stone,

Ralph Lauren magazine, White Wall, and Modern Painters. Rich, thanks very much for joining us.

John, thank you so much for having me.

As I said, you know, Radical Wolf is this such an intelligent and entertaining film.

I think it's one that will really please both longtime fans of Tom Wolfe as well as those who've

never had the good fortune to read his prose.

He covered so much of American culture for so long, and you beautifully

chronicle that wide-ranging career and the personality that enabled him to take on so many

sacred cows of the liberal establishment and the New York intelligentsia. Now, what's always

astonished me as I write in the City Journal article is how he just identified this red-blue culture war

long before anyone else, then also how he bridged it. Now, how he did that is quite a feat.

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