Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.