I don’t always agree with Paglia but when she is good, she is very, very good. And it’s always fun to see the leftists at Salon go into psychotic rages over her articles, demanding that she be fired for mocking their sacred cows.

Paglia has always been someone who understands the kind of passion one needs to be truly educated and that it’s not the kind of thing that comes from ticking off boxes on a syllabus that a professor hands you at the beginning of the school year or semester.

She pulls a lot from Nietzsche, but in a way that doesn’t trivialize him, as the post-modernists do. I always appreciated that about her writing, as well as her “gadfly” role on the Left. When viewed from the outside, she’s more of a Libertarian than a Leftist, it would seem.