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

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.