The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

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 sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply of new toys and drugs.

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

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.