A society that has made ostalgia 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.

Quote by Christopher Lasch

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Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are...

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are...

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with...

Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with...

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

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

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

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

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

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

We are all revolutionaries now, addicts of change.

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is...

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is...

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate...

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate...

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families...

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families...

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of...

The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of...

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the...

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the...

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

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

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides...

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides...

The left has lost the common touch.

The left has lost the common touch.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to...

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to...

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with...

The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with...

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality...

Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality...

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional...

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional...

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

News represents another form of advertising, not liberal propaganda.

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of...

The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of...