{"id":925,"date":"2007-02-14T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T11:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2007\/02\/paglias-back-and-worlds-little-brighter.html"},"modified":"2007-02-14T11:48:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T11:48:00","slug":"paglias-back-and-worlds-little-brighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2007\/02\/paglias-back-and-worlds-little-brighter.html","title":{"rendered":"Paglia’s Back and the World’s a Little Brighter"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>National treasure\/quirky odd duck Camille Paglia’s back writing for Salon.com<\/a> after a six-year absence. Here’s a snippet of her first column <\/a>(you may have to get a trial subscription to read the whole thing). <\/p>\n

I am a pro-choice libertarian Democrat whose platform remains the same, above all regarding educational reform. I denounce the outrageous expense, ideological indoctrination and spiritual hollowness of American higher education, with its crazed admissions rat race and juvenile brand-name snobbery. And I call for a valorization of the trades and for national investment in vocational schools to help salvage the disaster zone of urban public education. <\/p>\n

Though I am a professed atheist, I have been arguing for 20 years that the study of world religions should be basic to the university core curriculum. I addressed this matter last week in “Religion and the Arts in America,” <\/a> the 2007 Cornerstone Arts Lecture at Colorado College (it was filmed by C-SPAN). I approached the subject from a different angle in “Cults and Cosmic Consciousness: Religious Vision in the American 1960s”<\/a> (Arion, winter 2003).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Though she is no great fan of “New Age” thinking (which I think she finds intellectually lazy), I love what she says about the importance of school kids studying the world’s greatest religious texts. I plan to read her columns closely. She always wakes me up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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