The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

The work of art is a scream of freedom.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

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

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.