For America, what should an ideal of masculinity look like now? What is it that's out there which comes closest to your ideal? Well, you know, many of those images on the screen of which seem to be masculine often the actual actors. Working class culture retains an idea of the masculine. A utopian future is imagined when there are no men. We're all like, we're all genderless mannequins.
Camille Paglia joins Tyler Cowen for a conversation on the brilliance of Bowie, lamb vindaloo, her lifestyle of observation, why writers need real jobs, Star Wars, Harold Bloom, Amelia Earhart, Edmund Spenser, Brazil, why she is most definitely not a cultural conservative, and much more.
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