Great succinct comments on Hillary, especially coming from a Dem.

Given what has been said about her (and I can't judge because I was not familiar with her work), it is intriguing that she comments on the death of the Romantic Movement. She also makes the good point that many modernists, coming to age during the end of the Romantic era, acquired enough of its great virtues so that when they rebelled they did interesting work. It is the same with the earliest of the poets who began writing free verse; they had been steeped in the great tradition of poetry with meter, rhyme, luminous clarity. So when they decided to experiment with free verse they wrote some very fine things; you don't lose all your acquired habits and knowledge and skills just because you decide to abandon a tradition. Ayn Rand was born and educated during the twilight of the Romantic era and its greatest practitioners, such as Victor Hugo and Henryk Sienkiewicz still dominated the scene. She chose not to rebel and try to destroy the Romantic tradition. She vowed to keep it alive long enough so that some coming generation would realize the terrible loss that its ending represented. All of what began to vanish at the end of the Nineteenth Century--from laissez faire capitalism to Romanticism--had been products of the Enlightenment.

Khalling, This was an interesting article, thanks. She seems like a fun person and thinks very quickly on her feet. I can't believe she is a Democrat.

One could say "what has Obama ever done?" as well, yet here we are.

It remains to be seen whether and to what extent Camille Paiglia holds any sway. I do note that Salon is a serious trend-setter for the left. It was there in 2006 that I first read about Barack Obama.