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

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.

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 same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment.

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

The prison life of the past looks in our own time like liberation itself.