Witness – the autobiography of Whittaker Chambers’ – is the dramatic story of a Dostoevskian “lesser man” seeking redemption through suffering and rigorous moral integrity. It is a verbose but remarkable book, centering on his personal pendulum-swing from a tortured, austere, and passionately felt Communism – towards an equally tortured, austere, and passionately felt [...]
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I haven’t paid attention to Camille Paglia for about fifteen years. I suppose I had the impression she was a cultural-theory loud-mouth that one could ignore without peril. Mind you, I don’t really watch television.
Anyway, I’m wrong. These three short clips of her speaking on the degradation of academic literary studies spurred me to buy [...]