Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

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

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

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