A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.

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.