Camille Paglia: My favorite intellectual

I've loved her work for so long, and have read both of her books. I don't know how long she'll be able to hold out as an ardent Obama supporter with words like these, but agree with her or not, she is a treasure to American thought:

And then there was the fiasco of the ham-handed White House reception for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, which was evidently lacking the most basic elements of ceremony and protocol. Don't they read the "Iliad" anymore in the Ivy League? Check that out for the all-important ritual of gift giving, which has cemented alliances around the world for 5,000 years.