There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated trad….

Ballet is the body rising. Ballet is ceremonial and hieratic. Its disdain for the commonplace material world is the source of its authority and glamo….

The male orientation of classical Athens was inseparable from its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny..

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous sti….

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman..

What is Mona Lisa thinking? Nothing, of course. Her blankness is her menace and our fear. [...] Walter Pater is to call her a 'vampire,' coasting thr….

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader..

Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal cont….

In the real world, very smart people fail and mediocre people rise. Part of what makes people fail or succeed are skills that have nothing to do with….

My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism..

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

Sex is the point of contact between man and nature, where morality and good intentions fall to primitive urges..

I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies..

I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true….

Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure, depressive….

What is pretty in nature is confined to the thin skin of the globe upon which we huddle. Scratch that skin, and nature's daemonic ugliness will erupt..

Men knew that if they devirginized a woman, they could end up dead within twenty-four hours. These controls have been removed..

My problem is that I do not get along with lesbians at all. They don't like me, and I don't like them..

Ambitious young women today are taught to ignore or suppress every natural instinct, if it conflicts with the feminist agenda posed on them. All lite….

Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him..

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on..