Provocations, Free Women, Free Men and Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders: Academia in the Hour of the Wolf by Camille Paglia
For some reason I keep giving Camille Paglia’s Provocations another shot. I didn’t get any further this time before throwing it across the room, and reading bits of Free Women, Free Men I’m sad to say it too doesn’t hold up very well in hindsight.
To cheer myself up I read her long essay Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders. It’s a bit silly in places, but is very funny and the targets (particularly academic careerism) are very worthwhile: