The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

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

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

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