We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

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.

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

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

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