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

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

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

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.