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

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

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

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

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply...

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending supply...

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them...

Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them...

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some...

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some...

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the...

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the...

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

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

The left has lost the common touch.

The left has lost the common touch.

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...

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...

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to...

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to...

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family...

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family...

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...

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in...

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in...

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the...

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the...

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they...

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they...

A society that has made ostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates...

A society that has made ostalgia a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates...

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...

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion...

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion...