Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.

The left has lost the common touch.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

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.