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.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

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

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

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.