Applying for university enrolment is obligingly confessional and constitutes a noble act of candour and an absence of stifling ego. With this extended prologue, let us look at just one of the incessant, factitious controversies now embroiling yet another American university. It centres on Camille Paglia, student of Harold Bloom, ardent feminist, lesbian, and — long before it became a sacred category of new-thought — transgender. But much more than all of these things (save for studying under Maestro Bloom), Ms. Paglia is also the Boadicea of the besieged and mutilated Humanities; a Joan of Arc for the lost and wandering liberal arts. They did halt the railroading long enough to consider that the outright firing of a tenured professor might be illegal.

Source: National Post May 03, 2019 23:33 UTC