Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions. The woman who rejects the stereotype of feminine weakness and dependence can no longer find much comfort in the clich? that all men are beasts. She has no choice except to believe, on the contrary, that men are human beings, and she finds it hard to forgive them when they act like animals.

It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

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.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

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

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.