The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

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

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.