"I was raised watching the Ten Commandments, you know, and Ben Hur. I could watch that a hundred times," she says. "For women it's good to have something that's going to make you like assert ... It animates me." Do you today consider yourself a cultural conservative? No, not at all because... You're being used to be better, isn't that all? 'We're in a period of decadence, a falling off'
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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