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

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

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.

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.

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

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