We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech.

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

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.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

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

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.