Tom Wolfe: Human Exceptionalist

The ubiquitous attacks on human exceptionalism are one of the current age's worst decadent tendencies. HE is the backbone of Western Civilization's commitment to universal human rights, individual liberty, and our generally shared prosperity.

Some focus on religious reasons for holding out man as unique and distinct from all other life ever to exist in the known universe. But there are abundant other reasons based on our attributes and capacities -- whether or not we evolved from bacteria, w...