If you like reading Tom Wolfe (I prefer his nonfiction to his novels), then you might enjoy this lengthy interview he did with The National Association of Scholars, where he opines for his healthy Episcopal schooling in classical rhetoric:

When it came to academics, nobody could ask for a more rigorous and advanced curriculum. We all had to take a course in formal rhetoric in our sophomore year. Not just simple figures of speech such as simile and metaphor and oxymoron but also the really beautiful stuff, such as metonymy, litotes, anaphora, periphrasis-Dickens loved that one-epanados, as in “Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country,” tropes, figurae dictionis, figurae sententiae… And religion-every morning we had chapel, with prayers and hymns. You couldn’t beat the Episcopal hymns.

…how former Harvard President Larry Summers should have reacted when they lynched him for suggesting men and women were biologically different:

All he had to say was, “I cannot…believe…what I am now witnessing…members of the Harvard faculty taking a grossly anti-intellectual stance, violating their implicit vow to cherish the free exchange of ideas, going mad because a hypothesis that has been openly discussed for almost half a century offends some ideological passion of the moment, acting like the most benighted of Puritans from three centuries ago ransacking all that is decent and rational in search of witches, causing this great university to become the laughingstock of the academic world here and abroad, sacrificing your very integrity in the name of some smelly little orthodoxy, as Orwell called beliefs like the ones you profess.”

…and why Chuck Yeager was a better pilot than any of those terrific astronauts in The Right Stuff.