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
automatic government
Uncritical American boosterism - automatic endorsement of every government action - is myopic and self-defeating.
philosophy responsibility government
My political philosophy as a libertarian says that government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior. My professional ethic as a thinker and writer, however, says that self-knowledge is our ultimate responsibility
government males affair
For me, the Profumo affair symbolizes the evanescence of male government compared to women's cosmic power.
government behavior intervening
government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.
believe burdened confine excess government itself public realm stripped
I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.
genuinely government
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
funding government oppose
It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.
clutter creatively design games major news though ugly video web
Video games and YouTube.com are creatively booming, even though Web design, as demonstrated by the ugly clutter of most major news sites, is in the pits.
great mean
Like Picasso. Because he was mean to his girlfriend, he was not a great artist?
excuse fat leave remember women
I don't remember the fat women. Can we leave the fat women out of this? Excuse me, I have to go to the toilet.
above far feminist popular rock
Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.
dog feminists leaving letting sex vacation
Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist
girls issue
The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
economic failure fear gate mainly measured monstrous obama package presidency prove stimulus success within
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.