The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense.

The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

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

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

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.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.