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.

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.

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

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.