The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.

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.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.