Posted on 06/15/2017 8:17:20 AM PDT by Cheerio
In a wide-ranging interview Paglia talks about Donald Trump's successes, how Chuck Schumer emboldened the "resistance," why the left can't condemn Islamist terrorism, and "the cold biological truth that sex changes are impossible."
Camille Paglia is one America's smartest and most fearless writers. Like Elvis, she's the kind of superstar who really needs no introductionthough it is worth pointing out that Pantheon has just published a collection of her essays on sex, gender, and feminism, titled Free Women, Free Men. It's fantastic and if you love her work, it's must-reading. (And there's another collection due out in the Fall of 2018, which is more good news.)
Last week I sat down with Paglia over email to talk about Donald Trump, Islamist terrorism, and the transgender crusade. Here's a transcript of our conversation:
VL: Donald Trump has recently feuded with Jim Comey, Bob Mueller, Sadiq Kahn, Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel, NATOwe'll stop the list there. You were one of a very small number of people who understood Trump's populist appeal early on. Looking at his presidency so far, do think he's continuing to deliver on that appeal? What is he doing right? What is he doing wrong?
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Great read.
Odd how she can sound like a conservative sane person yet support the bern.
How can anyone as smart and insightful as Camille Paglia be a Democrat?
Since last Fall, I've had my eye on Kamala Harris, the new senator from California, and I hope to vote for her in the next presidential primary.
Paglia is a strange combination of logical and insane. Ultimately, though, insanity always gets the better of logic.
A discussion regarding the unlikely Presidency of Donald Trump that does not contain the word WALL is missing the point.
The real reason that Paglia is intelligent, or rather cunning, is that she manages to get otherwise intelligent conservatives to take their eyes off the ball. The “Resist” types are easy to spot. Paglia’s type is the one which is ratcheting the “center” ever leftward. (”Ratcheting” as in Norman Tibbet’s “ratchet effect”.)
How far we’ve come from the conservatism of our fathers & mothers when Paglia exhibits more common sense - and speaks it more forcefully - than most of our Republican leadership.
One of the few thinkers left in modern academia.
Faint praise, unfortunately.
She accepts incorrect premises but is intellectually honest in her subsequent analyses. She is in that very, very tiny camp of honest leftists - George Orwell, Alan Dershowitz, and herself. I am sure there are others, but I can’t think of them. Perhaps Tulsi Gabbard. Still watching her.
I’ve never understood how someone so brilliant can belong to today’s Democratic party.
I disagree. She makes some interesting points, but a lot of it is lost in the confusion of her rhetoric. It reads like someone who just read the dictionary and wants to show how sophisticated they are by using high-brow words and phrases when simple wording would be both sufficient and understandable.
Reminds me of when Sonny Bono was in Congress and he complained that most of the bills were written in legalese English, instead of something the average American could understand.
She comes across as a nut who hasn't found a way to square her nuttiness with reality.
“I am a registered Democrat who voted for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 primary and for Jill Stein in the general election. Since last Fall, I’ve had my eye on Kamala Harris, the new senator from California, and I hope to vote for her in the next presidential primary.”
I couldn’t move my mental furniture around enough to let myself get THAT razzle-dazzled by anyone, let alone by THOSE guys!
She sure is a rare bird... but that doesn’t mean she should be SHOT! :)
And she wants to see Kamala Harris get elected president? How can someone so articulate and intelligent not see Harris as a female Obama who sees the world through the racial prism of everyone a victim or oppressor and who would try to swing the country hard left with the attitude that everyone against her is the enemy that needs to be defeated?
Yes, it’s hard to explain, but I think I know her. She’s brilliant and honest, but at her base, leftism is her religion.
And yet, this is an excellent article to send around to feminist friends...yes, I have some.
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