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.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

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

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

The left has lost the common touch.