I actually think you can find Mailer-style public intellectuals on the right nowadays much more so than on the left, which may be why they are less visible to the avclub's audience. There seem to be a lot of (hacky) polymaths whose work in places like national review and the weekly standard cover a broad range of…

As annoying as I find her, Camile Paglia seems like the closest thing to Mailer going right now.

When I first saw the ads for this movie on the subway, I thought it was a Macy's billboard and that the release date was actually the name for a new holiday they created for men to give gifts to their best friends.