When I ran a speaker night at my private club back in the late 90s, I invited Paglia to come. She spoke, for free, for two hours on movies and art. I was just looking at an autographed book of hers the other day.
Her forte is NOT politics despite the fact that she’s good on Hillary Clinton. She’s also a bit of an Arabist (thanks to her pal, Said) and has yet to come fully to terms with jihadism. Big mistake, Camille. 2001 was a long time ago!
When she write/talks about movies, art, and culture...she can’t be beat. She’s also pretty good on politics and “feminism” and how it has RUINED things, but once she goes off those topics ( especially her past banal writings on Madonna; though she has her number now ), she sort of loses it. :-(