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

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 left has lost the common touch.

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 attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

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

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.