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

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.

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

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

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

Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities — for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.