A razor-sharp, wickedly funny skewering of elite liberal posturing, “Radical Chic” exposes the awkward dance between privilege and protest. Wolfe’s eye for social absurdity is as relevant now as it was in 1970—no one escapes unscathed in this classic satire of limousine liberalism.

The story centers on Leonard Bernstein, his glamorous Park Avenue guests, and the Black Panther leaders they invite into their opulent home. Wolfe brilliantly captures the tension and comic disconnect as New York’s high society attempts to embrace radical politics, revealing the self-consciousness, contradictions, and performative nature of their activism.