[Dear Substack Reader, I wrote this piece several years ago for The American Conservative, and I even heard, indirectly, that Paglia actually liked it! I thought it was worth revisiting. Here’s hoping you agree, Brad] Though Camille Paglia would not feel comfortable in the least writing or speaking for The American Conservative (she is, after all, a Nietzschean libertarian) or being written about at TAC, every person even marginally libertarian and/or conservative should appreciate the personality of this bizarre iconoclast.
Her book “Glittering Images” is utterly irreplaceable. I’m a STEM major and, as such, have had little formal exposure to analysis of art since my HS Humanities course almost 40 years ago. That book taught me so much. What a mind, and as you note, WHAT A WRITER.
Her book “Glittering Images” is utterly irreplaceable. I’m a STEM major and, as such, have had little formal exposure to analysis of art since my HS Humanities course almost 40 years ago. That book taught me so much. What a mind, and as you note, WHAT A WRITER.