The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

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.

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 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.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

Uprootedness uproots everything except the need for roots.