Atheist Camille Paglia: The remodeled university of the future should have comparative religion for its undergraduate core curriculum

Camille Paglia: It’s Time for a New Map of the Gender World:

Post-structuralism, along with identity politics, made huge gains in the 1970s, as the old guard professors proved helpless against a rising tide of rapid add-on programs and departments like women’s studies and African-American studies. The tenured professoriate seemed not to realize that change of some kind was necessary, and thus they failed to provide an alternative vision of a remodeled university of the future. I myself was lobbying for interdisciplinary innovation in the humanities—something that remained highly controversial right through the 1980s, when there were fierce battles over it where I was then teaching (during the merger of the Philadelphia College of Performing Arts with the Philadelphia College of Art to form the present University of the Arts). Another persistent proposal of mine has been for comparative religion to become the undergraduate core curriculum, an authentically global multiculturalism.

That didn't take long: Just four months ago Camille Paglia predicted Ted Cruz' career would end in disgrace

On Wednesday night Ted Cruz was booed off the stage at the Republican National Convention for failing to throw his support behind Donald Trump.

Now many, including Larry Kudlow here, are saying his career is finished:

I was in the convention hall and the crowd's reaction was unbelievable. It started out as a few hands waving in the air and some booing and then it just grew and grew throughout the entire convention hall. And then boom! It was absolute bedlam.

I've been to most of the GOP conventions since 1980, and I've never seen anything like it. These people stood on their feet and booed. These are Republicans! They don't do this. They don't know how to stand up and boo! And yet, Cruz so divided them and worked them into such a frenzy that it happened.

Cruz tried to pass it off as just the New York delegation acting up. But that is wrong. The whole hall was in an uproar. You couldn't even hear the last two paragraphs of Cruz's speech because the booing had reached such a crescendo!

Cruz left an absolute disaster in his wake when he finished that speech. ... Ted Cruz will never politically recover from this. His delegation from Texas wanted him to play ball with Trump - and he wouldn't. He was freelancing in that speech. And that is why his political career is over. He's finished.

Paglia's prediction noted here.

The coming crack-up of Ted Cruz

Camille Paglia, here:

Cruz seems consumed by a vainglorious conviction of his own destiny, tied to an apocalyptic view of history. He reminds me of glad-handing televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker, who were loved and trusted by so many but whose careers ended in disgrace.