Camille Paglia on Her Lifestyle of Observation and Lamb Vindaloo | Conversations with Tyler

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, and why she is most definitely not a cultural conservative.

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[KR-nvru]

I wish that *Camille Paglia would record her University lectures and post them online, * the way that Jordan B. Peterson does.

[zthechainz]

For me she is the most fascinating mind out there. I could listen to her all day long. Utterly mesmerising.

[wlljohnbey]

Listening to her, I truly think she's one of the most original thinkers we have left in this country with the scholarly chops to back up her ideas.

[azluan]

The hissing upon mentioning Sontag makes my day, every time.

[visceralfate]

Does this woman even sleep?
I love her :)

[thedolphin]

Just crying ... tears of laughter ... heart-stopping ... convulsions of mirth all the way through ... a meme a minute ...just incredible ...

[lucysweeney]

Thank you TYLER COWAN, for your indispensable questioning...you are an interviewer par excellence and gave Camille Paglia the very best opportunity to display her genius that I have had the privilege to listen to up to October 2024.

[amymargaretabigail]

In the early 1990s, I broke up with my boyfriend because he and his second wave feminist female friends tore into me over my love of Paglia. Best decision I ever made. Love you, Camille!!

[nilo]

Brilliant! I love her rapid fire speech and wit. A pleasure to listen to her.

[elsiesiu]

14:30 "I dont believe this online thing at all. I think that you need a live person, and you need a live person who can talk extemporaneously and respond to the moment. Not just people who are reading the same old damn lecture over and over again." FINALLY! Someone with integrity and intelligence has spit this out!

[keirokitagami]

What a true individual, insouciant to fashionable truisms demanded by transient public opinion! She sounds like a cultural conservative at times, probably because her aesthetics and thinking has been honed by the Classics. And there is nothing more revolutionary than the contemporary reading of the Classics because its substance always flies in the face of what is current opinion.

[lGalaxisl]

I love watching Camille Paglia, but damn this man is such a good interviewer!

[NoWuvDeep]

Musicians, who really embrace artistic values, stay underground these days for a reason. They know they can't create freely with these mainstream record labels. I want to hear her opinions on underground music (not just the current era but back a few decades as well) if she has explored it.

[zighunt]

Wow what a breath of fresh air. Marvelous. I've only just heard of this lady in 2020.

[Davidbirdman]

I was born and raised in Mississippi. ( yes, that Mississippi) and I don't know why, but I liked listening to people who had different ideas about life. I hated hunting and sports, I loved to read and talk about the mystery of the universe😂😂 and I remember the first time I heard this lady speak and I almost cut it off, but....I thought, no, I'm going to listen to what she has to say. I'm so glad I did. I'm a 68 year old man who lives in Mississippi and I love this lady! She always makes me think.

[CosmicD]

37:16 this is how I preceived feminism when I heard about her and other women who just did their job, who went into politics, without all the "identity" politics attached to it. Thanks Laci green, Thanks Dworkin, Thanks Anita Sarkeesian, Thanks hooks, thanks Firestone for demolishing true feminism. I've always considered my grandmother and many middle class women of my town I know who just stuck out their head and hands for the community as true feminists.

What we have now is social homeopathy, men hating sophistry, wrapped in academic smooth jargon.

[shawnchristopherwhite]

I love hyper people - they're more interesting and sincere! Camille Paglia is busting out with ideas!

[JesseSaintJesse]

Camille was in great form in this one - I have adored her since I first read Sexual Persone in 1991! So few intellectuals have a sense of humour!

[ytehrani]

Just discovered Tyler - what a wonderful interviewer - so probing yet so gentle & kind - absolutely lovely guy.

[the.hamel.mammal]

I really want her to and Joe Rogan have a no time limits 48 hour long interview.