We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.

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

We live in a historical period characterized by a sharp discrepancy between the intellectual development of man... and his mental-emotional development, which has left him still in a state of marked narcissism with all its pathological symptoms.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

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

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.