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

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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 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...

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a...

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a...

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a...

The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a...

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...

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a...

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a...

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us...

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us...

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 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...

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism,...

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism,...

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...