It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

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.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

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

The left has lost the common touch.

The model of ownership, in a society organized round mass consumption, is addiction.