Camille Paglia
Camille Paglia
Camille Anna Pagliais an American academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. The New York Times has described her as "first and foremost an educator". Paglia is known for her critical views of many aspects of modern culture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth2 April 1947
CountryUnited States of America
art eras materialism
In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
book reality tvs
Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.
spiritual atheist believe
Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.
fashion children hair
A lesser complaint: hair extensions. There are moments on 'All My Children' when half the women actors, young and old, seem to be afflicted by android Barbie creep. All those thick swatches of lifeless strands clustering lankly round ladies' necks! Like orange tanning spray, this is a fashion fad that should be put out of its misery.
mom jobs children
Working moms commonly testify that they feel guilty when they are away from their children and guilty when they are not at their jobs. Devoted fathers certainly miss their children deeply, but it does not seem to be with the same gnawing, primal anxiety that often afflicts women.
administration economic stimulus
Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
years juniors doe
Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?
class order waiting
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes.
persons
I am a very reclusive, private person.
quality opera soap
Daytime soap operas, which I used to adore, have been declining in quality and importance for over a decade, and I gradually stopped monitoring them.
eye ears should
As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
war legacy rage
A war still rages over the legacy of the 1960s.
rushing people world
If people want to be better writers, they can't just read the blogs! You've got to look at something that's outside this rushing world of evanescent words.
past rome hopeless
Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?