I've never read any of her writing but on taking a cursory look at some stuff she wrote, here are two links:
http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/27/pops-drop-from-madonna-to-miley/http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/magazine/article389697.ece http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/public/magazine/article389697.ece http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/27/pops-drop-from-madonna-to-miley/ http://ideas.time.com/2013/08/27/pops-drop-from-madonna-to-miley/ ---In [email protected], <punditster@...> wrote: On 12/29/2013 8:44 AM, authfriend@... mailto:authfriend@... wrote: I think she's wildly overrated as an intellect. I think she picks her positions (perhaps unconsciously) based on their outrageousness quotient and then figures out how to support them. She impresses more because of her skill with words and her contrariness than the quality of her thinking. So, I wonder how Camille Paglia compares to Kevin Drum, commenting on the ethanol subsidies? "A few years ago I called subsidies for corn ethanol "catastrophically idiotic." And why not? Corn ethanol, it turns out, is actively worse for the environment than even gasoline, farmers responded to the subsidies by reducing the amount of farmland used for food production, and this drove up the price of staple food worldwide." 'Ethanol Subsidies: Not Gone, Just Hidden a Little Better' by Kevin Drum http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/ethanol-subsidies/ http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/ethanol-subsidies/ "Having mandated huge volumes of a fuel that has little willing market, the ethanol lobby is bullying auto makers to warranty cars that use damaging E15, pushing legislation to require more flex-fuel vehicles, and now using the threat of investigation to force the oil industry into selling a rival product. All this for a fuel that raises gas and food prices and has no anti-pollution benefits." 'The Ethanol Enforcers' by Camille Paglia: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/ethanol_enforcers http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324665604579079422906545590
