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

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

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

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

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.

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

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.