Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a consumer society, where people greet all official pronouncements with suspicion.

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 family is a haven in a heartless world.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.

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