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.

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.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

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

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

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

Advertising serves not so much to advertise products as to promote consumption as a way of life. It 'educates' the masses into an unappeasable appetite not only for goods but for new experiences and personal fulfillment.