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

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

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

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.