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

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by 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.