Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.