For the multiculturalist, white Anglo-Saxon Protestants are prohibited, Italians and Irish get a little respect, blacks are good, native Americans are even better. The further away we go, the more they deserve respect. This is a kind of inverted, patronising respect that puts everyone at a distance.

Fascism is relatively easy to explain. It is a reactionary phenomenon. Nazism was some bad guys having some bad ideas and unfortunately succeeding in realizing them.

A typical guy who buys organic food doesn't really buy it in order to be healthy; he buys it to regain a kind of solidarity as the one who really cares about nature. He buys a certain ideological stance.

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

If you have reasons to love someone, you don’t love them.

What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

You can be an extreme materialist, thinking that economic development ultimately determines everything; then you are truly ideological.