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

The family is a haven in a heartless world.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

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.

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