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April 2005 Daniel Nester features An Interview with Camille Paglia Before she became the porn-friendly pundit who pounces on Puritanical feminists and the poststructuralist powers-that-be, Paglia was a humanities professor. When I lived in Philadelphia, her students would tell me about this crazy professor who walks in with a boombox and blasts Led Zeppelin at top volume. Paglia’s academic life changed upon publication of 1990’s Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson. Her Yale dissertation published some 20 years after taking her degree, the 700-page tome remains an energetic, Freud-friendly reading of Western art, and one that,...

The Magic of Images: Word and Picture in a Media AgeCAMILLE PAGLIA Education has failed to adjust to the massive transformation in Western culture since the rise of electronic media. The shift from the era of the printed book to that of television, with its immediacy and global reach, was prophesied by Marshall McLuhan in his revolutionary Understanding Media, which at its publication in 1964 spoke with visionary force to my generation of college students in the United States. But those of us who were in love with the dazzling, darting images of TV and movies, as well as with...

America's most telegenic feminist, Naomi Wolf, has touched off a media firestorm with a forthcoming condemnation of two decades of alleged sexual harassment against women at Yale, her former university. According to advance "tasters" of the expose, she describes herself as a victim of harassment and names a senior professor as her tormentor. Her high-profile denunciation of alleged sexual misconduct at the Ivy League university has already drawn a furious response from one of her feminist sisters and another former student of the professor. Camille Paglia accused Wolf of launching a witch hunt similar to those that swept New England...

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This Iraq adventure is a political, cultural and moral disaster for the United States. Every sign was there to read, but the Bush administration is run by blinkered people who are driven by ideology and who do not feel the largeness of the world and its multiplicity of religions, ethnicities and customs. Despite the multicultural ambitions of higher education in the last 25 years, there has been a massive failure in public education. Media negligence also played a huge role in this cataclysm. Throughout all of last year, as the war drums were beating, the media did not do its...

Look, I am a longtime listener of Rush Limbaugh because I'm a fan of AM radio. I've listened to radio since childhood. I was in anguish for a week over what was happening to Rush. It began with the flap over his remarks about our Philadelphia Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb being "overrated" because he's black -- an ill-advised intrusion of racial controversy into a tightly scripted jock show that wasn't the right forum for political debate. Then within days, news broke of the National Enquirer's cover story on Rush's abuse of prescription pain medication. The news stunned his fans. For...

Praising Paglia A lonely voice on education. By Thomas Hibbs A caller to C-Span's In Depth on Sunday, August 3, accused the show's guest, Camille Paglia, of being a reactionary conservative and wanting to take us back to the days of "lynching." What exactly did Paglia say to merit this criticism? She issued a plea for educational reform, for a return to "fundamentals" and "great books." The caller's non sequitur was almost as outlandish as imputing the conservative label to Paglia, a devotee of the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Appearing for a marathon three-hour session, Paglia's rapid-fire speech...

Under grilling by social critic Camille Paglia and Radar editor Maer Roshan, the proprietor of the billion-hit-a-year Drudgereport.com claims that the DNC has assembled a "really thick . . . dirt file" on Condoleezza Rice. On Rice: "Oh, she's a powerhouse! But the DNC has a dirt file on her that is really thick. Think of 'The Contender,' or those other movies that have warned what happens when a female candidate has some dirt she'd rather hide." As for the so-called "dirt file," DNC Communications Director Debra DeShong gave a non-denial denial. "We don't talk about our research," she said,...

http://www.c-span.org Paglia, Camille, Professor, University of the Arts, Humanities Professor Paglia will talk about her writing and teaching career and about her books. She will respond to audience telephone calls and electronic mail. Professor Paglia is a social critic, political commentator, professor, and essayist. She is the author of four books: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson; Sex, Art and American Culture; Vamps and Tramps; and The Birds.

How Far Will Good Intentions Take Hillary?By Camille PagliaTimes (UK) | June 18, 2003 The following review was originally published on June 13, 2003.AFTER their husbands leave the White House, First Ladies of the United States write bland, genial books about their swim in the shark-infested waters of Washington, DC. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s much-anticipated Living History follows that formula, but also breaks the mould, since its author is on an upward trajectory, her career waxing as her husband’s wanes. Hillary received a whopping $8 million (£4.8 million) advance for this book, a jackpot needed to defray the enormous legal fees...

How far will good intentions take Hillary?By Camille PagliaDespite or even because of the hedging and waffling in Hillary Clinton's autobiography, she is a credible presidential candidate. But she won't make the White House Hillary Clinton AFTER their husbands leave the White House, First Ladies of the United States write bland, genial books about their swim in the shark-infested waters of Washington, DC. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s much-anticipated Living History follows that formula, but also breaks the mould, since its author is on an upward trajectory, her career waxing as her husband’s wanes. Hillary received a whopping $8 million (£4.8...

<p>The Salon Interview: Camille Paglia Bad omen: Why the Columbia disaster should make Bush think twice about rushing to war with Iraq.</p> <p>Camille Paglia is a rarity in the increasingly polarized world of public intellectuals, a high-profile thinker and writer who is not readily identified with any political camp or party line. She burst onto the scene in 1990 following the publication of her book, "Sexual Personae." Paglia was a rough-trade feminist not afraid to challenge the orthodoxy of the women's movement or its reigning sisterhood; a professor from a small college with no qualms about torching the Parisian academic trends then enthralling Ivy League humanities departments; a self-proclaimed "Democratic libertarian" who voted twice for Bill Clinton and then loudly denounced him for bringing shame to his office.</p>

The language of leftism is out of date. It desperately needs reconstruction and revitalisation, if the Left is ever to regain its proper status as a voice of ethical critique of materialistic modern society. As a registered Democrat who voted for the fringe-left Ralph Nader for President in 2000, I am well aware of the decline in prestige and effectiveness of leftist organisations since their high point in the 1960s. The large demonstrations against globalisation two years ago, for example, made scarcely a ripple in the US and have already been forgotten. One problem is that too many leftist periodicals...