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Camille Paglia

Camille Paglia

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Birthday April 2, 1947

Educated At Yale University

Political Parties Democratic Party

Nationality United States Of America

Occupations Professor, Art Historian, Literary Critic, Writer, Journalist

Religion Atheism, Atheist

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Woody AllenHollywoodRoman PolanskiWho Are You?Art and Ethics

I am still amazed at the election of Arnold Schwarzenegger to governor—a man who has never held political office and who participated in only one serious debate. It is a disturbing sign in any nation when politics have become so inefficient and corrupt that the people turn to an outsider as ‘strong man’ for leadership. This is how fascism is born. Because it is Schwarzenegger’s machismo—represented on a superhuman scale in his films—that California voters want to attack the entrenched special interests in Sacramento, his behavior toward women was irrelevant. Or rather, his behavior actually reinforced his virile image as a forceful personality who pushes through barriers

— Camille Paglia, Zombie time at campaign Hillary: Camille Paglia on Trump’s real strength and Clinton’s fatal sleepwalking

Arnold SchwarzeneggerPoliticsElection 2016Sacramento Politcs

Can there be any finer demonstration of the insularity and mediocrity of today’s Manhattan prestige media? Wow, millionaire workaholic Donald Trump chased young, beautiful, willing women and liked to boast about it. Jail him now! Blame for this fiasco falls squarely upon the New York Times editors who delegated to two far too young journalists, Michael Barbaro and Megan Twohey, the complex task of probing the glitzy, exhibitionistic world of late-twentieth-century beauty pageants, gambling casinos, strip clubs, and luxury resorts. Neither Barbaro, a 2002 graduate of Yale, nor Twohey, a 1998 graduate of Georgetown University, had any frame of reference for sexual analysis aside from the rote political correctness that has saturated elite American campuses for nearly 40 years.

— Camille Paglia, Camille Paglia: PC feminists misfire again, as fearful elite media can’t touch Donald Trump

New York MediaDonald TrumpIvy League

What we have right now is this ridiculous situation where if you criticize liberals, people say, 'She’s a conservative!' Now, what kind of a lack of information is this about intellectual history? Liberalism is only 200 years old. There are other points of view on the world besides that of liberalism in its present decayed condition. We of the Sixties were often in revolt against liberals. Lenny Bruce, when he recited all those dirty words, was trying to offend liberals, not conservatives. So in the present situation I don’t know what to call myself. I would maybe say 'libertarian' or something like that. I’m trying to create a new system— I call it 'Italian pagan Catholicism.' But that may be too esoteric! I’m thinking that I want to bring about an enlightened center. I would like to call it, maybe, 'pragmatic liberalism,' that is, a liberalism that has learned the political lessons of the past twenty-five years.

— Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

IPCProliferate DifferenceLiberalism

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