In this 4-part Video Essay, outspoken and oft-quoted writer and cultural critic
Fran Lebowitz
takes on politicians, writers, television, global warming, social security, and...Madonna!

n archive of thought, The Millennium Project was first conceived by director Kathryn Walker as a museum installation. From 1991 to 2000, Ms. Walker interviewed hundreds of subjects - from school children to poets; from writers, political thinkers and celebrities to theologians and business leaders. What resulted was a diverse array of cultural perception on the meaning to be found in this tumultuous millennial time - a fascinating historical tapestry.

Fran Lebowitz is the author of the infamously witty Metropolitan Life and Social Studies. She has not written countless other books, including Exterior Signs of Wealth, currently being not written for Random House.