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In today's impoverished dialogue, critiques of liberalism are often naively called conservative, as if twenty-five hundred years of Western intellectual tradition presented no other alternatives.

Camille Paglia

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Camille Paglia
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: April 2
Art Historian
Essayist
Film Critic
Journalist
Literary Critic
Professor
Teacher
Writer
Endicott
New York
Camille Anna Paglia
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Critique
Tradition
Presented
Intellectual
Liberalism
Hundred
Alternatives
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Five
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Critiques
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Twenties
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Today
Conservative
Impoverished

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