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.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

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

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.