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 job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.

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

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

We do not need to minimize the poverty of the ghetto or the suffering inflicted by whites on blacks in order to see that the increasingly dangerous and unpredictable conditions of middle-class life have given rise to similar strategies for survival. Indeed the attraction of black culture for disaffected whites suggests that black culture now speaks to a general condition.