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

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

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

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

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.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

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