Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

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

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.

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