Camille Paglia on C-Span 1998 

I love Camille Paglia but I would like to complement the interviewer. How refreshing for an interviewer who keeps the focus on the guest instead of constantly trying to interject their ideas as is often done nowadays. She asked good questions when appropriate but always with an eye toward the ideas of the guest to be shown. Well done.

The facial expressions while she waits for people to finish their questions are priceless

It's so refreshing to get to listen to a person holistically explain her complex worldview without constant interruptions by a journalist hell-bent on being the star of the show - as is the case now. Moreover, I think Camille brings up good points - which are still relevant today. People are hungry for appreciation and are sick of the almighty red pen.

I love her, she's brilliant and utterly refreshing. Agree with her or not, she'd debate anyone on the merits and embarrass most.

Can't believe she's 51 years old here.

I love the fact that they were discussing the Spice Girls on C-SPAN.

Camile Paglia = beautiful, brainy, fiery, and assertive...then and now.

I love when Camille puts the caller in her place at 16:48. I love the interviewer. I would like to see more of her.

Thank you for uploading this!! I don't always agree with Paglia, but I often do, and I always listen to her carefully. She's fantastic.

Wow I love Camille and as a male, I'm be proud to associated myself with her version of feminism. She was also a hottie back in the day it looks like.

For anyone who wants to appreciate poetry but doesnt know how, the incomparable Camille Paglia has a fabulous new(ish) book called Break, Blow, Burn which introduces, to the average person, passion and appreciation for the poetic word and structure. I've never had the least interest in poetry, even tho I love to write, but the fabulous intelligence of Paglia has ignited a flame in me that I never knew existed. Her stunning insights into poetic form, words, language, cadence as well as her seemingly bottomless understanding of art history is breathtaking and the cherry on top is her incredibly passionate delivery. All of this makes me want to read more poetry. Every word that comes out of her mouth gets hold of me and I just feel an insatible desire to read and understand more.

Thanks for the upload! Anything on Camille suits me fine. Thanks again!

I just love, love Paglia! Truly original and a true feminist.

Crazy the feminist that called to tell Camille how to speak, that shes abrasive. Up is down...

16:00 is GOLD

lmao @ 16:40. She really doesn't give a fuck and its great.

Pardon my male chauvinism but Camille is GORGEOUS.

43:03 It cracks me up every time when she says "I'm afraid I don't suffer fools gladly". LOL.

SOO ahead of her time in predicting the 2010s

I love this woman!

It never stops amazing me that every time I watch an old Paglia interview, almost everything she says can be applied to today, from feminism to the universities to politics.

Prophet of the internet from the beginning. Love her.

Thanks for the upload! I do not always agree with her comments, but I have always enjoyed her.

17:00 I LOST IT WHEN THE LADY ON THE PHONE CALLS HER CATTY 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 Paglia is truly the goat

i also want more specificity from Camille on her critique of university. i found my curriculum to be to heavily "gen ed" heavy and survey art classes that just call for memorizing artists, titles, dates

So much foreshadowing!

Oh my God that caller at 16:02...

thank u for posting!!!

It helps to go to settings, and adjust Camille to .75 speed.

Thanks for posting this. ☺️🙌

Thank you so much for this!

this woman was is a pearl that USA wasted

linking the feminists with powers in democratic party so well illustrated now, you are so perceptive...even prophetic

Nice to see Linda Richman of Coffee Talk fame call in around 16:02

Whenever she's talking, I check the video speed and it's never over 1x

I love this woman! She kicks ass...

30:11 SAINT CAMILLE: INDEPENDENT THINKING GAY LEADER!!!

This woman has some really good insights on the many things our government has made so much worse. She was saying what Jordan Patterson is now so famous for saying. Ironically he also considers himself a liberal, but has a lot of common sense views & of course the far left calls him right wing.

Camille is always fair in her positions.

It would have been great to take her class in college

the 'moderate line' was disconnected in 2008, probably

I wonder what she thinks of Shillary now...

Yes, there IS a -God- Goddess !! Unfortunately for us, she prefers women.

Gawd she's funny and fun to watch!

27:02 CAMILLE IS A GENIUS!!!

Excellent! So advanced! And so right!

This woman was and is a prophet

salon?! they'd never allow her now...

ajaja that LOSER caller at 16:00 I CANNOT

Wonder if Camille still believes Hillbillary will become a spiritual spokesperson for women today ? Sad though Camille just went down a notch in my eyes.

God I love her. Genius and beautiful.

Watching this on x1.25 speed :P

This was soon 20 years ago, wow! In 2008 it was only 10 years later and Hillary did candidate for the presidency and 8 years later she almost became president so I wonder what Camille has been thinking about the prospects of a female president these later years :)

So this is what happened to Barb!

HOW WONDERFUL! THANK YOU!!

Camille "Italian, 700 page book" Paglia

'Women struggle to work in groups' 'We need a woman as President or VP' Walk before you run ladies

i think on most things she is right.

I have ridiculous amounts of respect for Camille Paglia. But she is just plain wrong on the issue of causes for homosexuality and "gay conversion" therapies. I do hope that in the nearly 20 years since this interview she has changed her mind based on all the new evidence that has become available. I have seen a couple interviews with her from the late 2000s and early 2010s, but none that brought up this issue again.

My prediction now in 2020: first US female president will be a Republican woman (or any woman not a Dem) perhaps Nikki Haley.

I wonder why she doesn't have the "okay" tic in this segment. Maybe that tic is a sign of her being nervous. Her speech patterns here are much smoother than in her Charlie Rose interviews.

Camille? 48:07 You should talk to Bari Weiss and James Bennet ;)

She even ripped off Sontag’s gray patch.

36:01 PREACH!!!

Camille is a prophet!

Looks great for a 50 yr old

11:20 QUEEN CAMIILE!!!

The Beatles, really??? But the Spice Girls were *gone* from the scene two years after this segment was recorded. The Beatles are an enduring cultural miracle that will continue to revitalize culture for generations to come. The Spice Girls??? The Spice Girls was a *product* concocted by *men* for public consumption, and not much more. The Beatles was a self-generated organization created for the advancement of their own creativity. Lennon-McCarteny? Two men, famously competing against each other in the co-creation of music - yet famously committed to the absolute co-crediting of their individual creations to the *partnership.* Women are *never* observed doing this in nature. Being a "member of a team," "hanging together as group" creating new and revolutionary cultural forms - in the way that men do sometimes for decades - is not a female attribute. Now what? For men hanging together with the people you competed against was an evolutionary *necessity* - for women it was an evolutionary impediment. Men compete against men and produce greatness, women compete against women hardly at all, and reinforce cultural homogeneity when they do band togethger. A woman by herself, like Madonna, can rise to the stars - with a male backing band - but you never see four women banding together of their own accord and do the same. In homeopathy this is called the Apis miasma - the queen bee syndrome. There is some new science out there that shows strongly that men are *significantly* better able to set aside past adversity towards one another [fellow men] than women are able to set aside adversity with fellow women - the supposed 'peace makers.' Evolutionarily for men, being able to let 'bygones be bygones' was much more important than for women, and it shows in the real world. Feminists are going to have to face up to the facts that overcoming this evolutionary phenomena will be more difficult than simply forcing, coercing, or bribing men to act like women. The fatal flaw in Feminism is that it systematically fails to see the necessity in masculinity.

💕 what a badass

Jeez this has aged well.

Where is the second part?

21:16 "GET TO THE CHOPPAH!!!!"

...not even Jimmy Cagney or Groucho Marx , in 30's movies, speaks as fast as Camille. Startling, stimulating public speaker, but most people would suffer an asthma attack, trying to keep -a pace with this lady's verbal dexterity. Hooked on her views, nevertheless...and breathe...phew!

What a great retort to that hostile caller, that the caller's emotional outburst doesn't help women at all. And Camille doesn't appear ruffled in the least.

24:00 Can you believe she talks about plus size fashion trend ahead of its time by 20 years?

you can't mention the Beatles and the Spice Girls in the same sentence.

I think Trump might have proved her wrong on the equanimity of temper point. 42:44

So I guess we are dealing with the offspring of the feminists she talks about lol jk

How many C-Spans did Camille take part in? Can somebody please answer

Boy was she wrong about Hillary, LOL

16:20 OMG A triggered nightmare, what an awful woman.

Great women, "FULL STOP". xxx

It's great that she's back. Sad that she has to come back to fight the same fight against authoritarian leftists again.

22:08

Salon lol

Well, I always liked CP, even though I don't always agree (with anyone, for that matter). But she obviously has no idea whatsoever about language acquisition. What she says about bilingual education is just uninformed subjective waffling. She should ask a linguist about that. Or read a book.