by Minette Marrin

About the author: Minette Marrin is a writer for the Sunday Telegraph, a British newspaper.

Prozac is a name that is too often taken in vain. This wonderful drug, which has eased the despair of millions of the mentally ill, is now usually spoken of as an unnecessary self-indulgence. For years now it has been thought of as little more than a mood-lifter for the fashionable, the butt of bitchy little jokes; Diana, Princess of Wales took it, Sarah Ferguson took it. Even American cats and dogs took it. Now Camille Paglia, the excitable American media feminist, has decided it is time for her to let the world know how much she, too, despises Prozac.

Prozac, she says, is “the drug of choice for glum politically correct sentimentalists...