The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

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

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

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.

Even the reporting of news has to be understood not as propaganda for any particular ideology, liberal or conservative, but as propaganda for commodities — for the replacement of things by commodities, use values by exchange values, and events by images.

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.