{"id":196515,"date":"2008-04-18T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/18\/i-miss-molly-ivins\/"},"modified":"2008-04-18T16:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-18T21:48:00","slug":"i-miss-molly-ivins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/18\/i-miss-molly-ivins\/","title":{"rendered":"I Miss Molly Ivins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.its.caltech.edu\/~erich\/misc\/ivins_on_paglia\">take-down of Camille Paglia<\/a> should be read by every person in the world.<\/p>\n<p>All 6+ billion.<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Tracing Paglia&#8217;s intellectual ancestry is a telling exercise; she&#8217;s the lineal descendant of Ayn Rand, who in turn was a student of William Graham Sumner, one of the early American sociologists and an enormously successful popularzier of social Darwinism. Sumner was in turn a disciple of Herbert Spencer, that splendid nineteenth-century kook. Because Paglia reasserts ideas so ingrained in our thinking, she has become popular by reaffirming common prejudices.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Go read.<\/p>\n<p>I miss Molly.  She was the best thing to come out of Texas since&#8230;.maybe ever, and both my kids were born there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Her take-down of Camille Paglia should be read by every person in the world. All 6+ billion. Tracing Paglia&#8217;s intellectual ancestry is a telling exercise; she&#8217;s the lineal descendant of Ayn Rand, who in turn was a student of William Graham Sumner, one of the early American sociologists and an enormously successful popularzier of social &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1002],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196515"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}