Iconoclastic feminist Camille Paglia speaks out about issues she believes in regardless of how it strikes her fellow feminists. Such is the case in her new article in TIME, in which she speaks out against the tyranny of political correctness. "The plague of political correctness and assaults on free speech that erupted in the 1980s and were beaten back in the 1990s have returned with a vengeance," she writes. "In the United States, the universities as well as the mainstream media are currently patrolled by well-meaning but ruthless thought police, as dogmatic in their views as agents of the Spanish Inquisition. We are plunged once again into an ethical chaos where intolerance masquerades as tolerance and where individual liberty is crushed by the tyranny of the group."

The examples are endless. After President Donald Trump's election, campuses across America seemed to implode. At Yale, a professor allowed distraught students to skip exams due to their extreme disappointment at the election results. At Berkeley, violent protests broke out against controversial libertarian speaker Milo Yiannopoulos. Rice University organized a gigantic group hug to comfort their baffled students.

Paglia is not impressed. "The liberal versus conservative dichotomy, dating from the split between Left and Right following the French Revolution, is hopelessly outmoded for our far more complex era of expansive technology and global politics," she wrote. "A bitter polarization of liberal and conservative has become so extreme and strident in both the Americas and Europe that it sometimes resembles mental illness, severed from the common sense realities of everyday life."

Exactly. The hysteria that has characterized American liberals' response to the Trump election has been sobering to see. Perhaps campus liberals will read Paglia's wise words... and quit hyperventilating.

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