Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

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

Traditionalists will have to master techniques of sustained activism formerly monopolized by the left.

A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

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

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

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective.

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

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

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

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

Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.

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

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

The effect of the mass media is not to elicit belief but to maintain the apparatus of addiction.