Madonna remains the most visible performer on the planet, as well as one of the wealthiest, but would anyone seriously say that artistic self-development is her primary motivating principle? She is too busy with Kabbalah, fashion merchandising, adoption melodramas, the gym, and ill-starred horseback riding to study art.

Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.

Visionary idealism is a male art form. The lesbian aesthete does not exist. But if there were one, she would have learned from the perverse male mind.

Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendance. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on.

A serious problem in America is the gap between academe and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors of humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.

Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.