Some years ago, Tom Wolfe attended a Manhattan fundraising party that composer Leonard Bernstein hosted for his Black Panther pals. The result of the evening was a sardonic piece by Wolfe titled “Radical Chic” which continues to provide us with language to describe an undying phenomena: The intelligentsia’s desire to associate, adopt, or advocate far left or minority causes as a way to offer penance for past misdeeds (real or imagined).