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.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

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.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.