We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.

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 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.

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.