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

We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

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

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

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

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.