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Friday, October 27, 2006 12:00 AM

Salon Interview: Camille Paglia

Our fave pop intellectual weighs in on the Dems' gift to Ann Coulter (Foley), why Condi's success matters to feminists, and Bob Woodward (yawn).

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  • Sunday, October 29, 2006 07:03 PM

    Please....

    please please give up on your infatuation with Camille Paglia. She's formulaically contrarian, picking topics to write about with a dart and a recent celebrity magazine. She seems to think hypocrisy is a valid political stance (she is neither a democrat nor a republican, she is a hypocrat). She's made a career of looking knowledgeable and intellectual to those who are neither.

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