Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

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

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

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

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

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