It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

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

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

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.