Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees. - Camille Paglia

Contemporary feminists, who are generally poor or narrowly trained scholars, insist on viewing history as a weepy scenario of male oppression and female victimization. But it is more accurate to see men, driven by sexual anxiety away from their mothers, forming group alliances by male bonding to create complex structures of society, art, science and technology.

Capitalism is an art form.

Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic.