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

The best defense against the terror of existence are the homely comforts of love, work, and family life, which connect us to a world that is independent of our wishes yet responsive to our needs.

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.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

The proper role of humanists is not to bring 'human values' to the attention of technicians otherwise engaged in a purely instrumental approach to their calling, but to demand the restoration of the practical or moral element in callings that have degenerated into techniques.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.