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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:00 AM

Real inconvenient truths

Our failed political dynasties, Pelosi's stylish appeal and George W. Bush as Queen Victoria. Plus: The hot air about global warming.
By Camille Paglia

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  • Friday, April 13, 2007 08:51 PM

    Poststructuralism

    OK, French intellectuals sometimes get carried away by their own pretentious prose. And it's annoying that people treat them like gurus (especially, I guess, when your book was a flash in the pan and you're reduced to blogging on Salon). But to say that not a single sentence of Derrida or Foucault interests you is to show that you are an incredibly ignorant philistine. People will be reading French poststructuralists with profit long, long after Paglia's name is erased from memory.

    —rakhia Read rakhia's other letters

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