Jordan Peterson Interviews Camille Paglia: Fantastic!

I’ve known her name for years as a public intellectual. I thought she did movie reviews. Had the impression that she was a leftist. That’s all I knew.

JM sent me this video of an interview Jordan Peterson did with her five years ago. I was floored. This woman is not just very smart, but very forceful, too. (I felt like Jordan Peterson was slightly afraid of her.) In any case, I fell in love with her and wanted to know more about who she is.

It turns out that she’s been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia (where the interview took place) since 1984. She’s the author of seven books focusing on literature, visual art, music, and film history, among other topics. The most well-known is Sexual Personae, an expansion of her highly original doctoral thesis at Yale.

What I most like about her is how passionately and convincingly she expresses her ideas. She reminds me of two of my favorite college teachers, both of whom were women of her age. Click here and see what you think!