Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

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

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.

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.

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.