“The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.”

— Camille Paglia

Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 238

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