#american

It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american tradition #belongs #brown #europe #i

American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will always be in flux or turmoil, with different peoples competing for visibility and power. The U.S. cannot fix the fate of every nation. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american #american policy #cannot #competing #different

Our presence in Afghanistan is not worth the price of any more American lives or treasure. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american #american lives #any #lives #more

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american writers #been #breakthroughs #continuity #did

Young feminists have been sold a bill of goods about American feminism. The enormous changes in women over the past 40 years are constantly and falsely attributed to the organized women's movement of the late 1960s and '70s. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#american #attributed #been #bill #changes

Country music has become the music that best represents the reality of American life. ↗

— Brad Paisley

#american life #become #best #country #country music

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison. ↗

— Craig L. Thomas

#american dream #becomes #dream #into #prison

While prices of goods continue to rise, American worker's wages remain stagnant. ↗

— Ed Pastor

#continue #goods #prices #remain #rise

On that terrible day, a nation became a neighborhood. All Americans became New Yorkers. ↗

— George Pataki

#became #day #nation #neighborhood #new

I think The Exorcist is the best American horror movie ever made. Friedkin was at the top of his game. ↗

— Jason Patric

#best #ever #exorcist #game #his