Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.

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

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

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.