When you were in high school, you either wrote or just started a book on Amelia Air Hall. And what was the appeal of her to you? Oh my God, okay, well, Amelia Earhart,. I stumbled on, there was like an article, in 1961, about, there's always some article about Amelia Earhart and so on. So I did that for like three years on this research project, and that's how I became a feminist before feminism had revived. When women won the right to vote, we had all these career women, like Amelia Earhart and Dorothy Parker. But when second wave feminism revived with Betty Frieden's co-founding of Now in
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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