The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

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

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

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

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.