Brian Wilson and Jimi Hendrix, every time I hear them, it sounds different and fresher for me. The entire period of the 1960s of the music I think was a kind of magic moment. Who would be a musical artist today who stands up to the giants of the past? Stands up to working today or close to the vast engine.
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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