The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

The left has lost the common touch.

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.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.