The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.