Paglia’s bold statements got her in a bit of hot water in April. University of the Arts students demanded that she be fired over public comments she’d made that were not wholly sympathetic to the #MeToo movement, as well as for an interview with the Weekly Standard that they called “transphobic.” That latter denunciation is particularly slapstick, since Paglia describes herself as “transgender,” writes Tunku Varadarajan, Hoover Institution’s institutional editor, in his Aug. 30 Wall Street Journal article, “A Feminist Capitalist Professor Under Fire.”

The students’ demand that Paglia be fired fell on deaf ears. Fortunately, there are a few college presidents with guts and common sense. President David Yager is one of them. He wrote in an open letter to students: “Artists over the centuries have suffered censorship, and even persecution, for the expression of their beliefs through their work. My answer is simple: not now, not at UArts.”

There’s another part of this story that’s particularly interesting considering today’s young peoples’ love of socialism. Paglia says that children now “are raised in a far more affluent period. Even people without much money have cellphones, televisions, and access to cars. They’re raised in an air-conditioned environment. I can still remember when there was no air-conditioning.”