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 job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

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.

It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

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.