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.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

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

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.

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