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

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.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

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

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.

I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.