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 left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

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.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

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

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.