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

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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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by...

The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by...

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature...

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature...

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...

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 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...

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...

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

Personal disintegration remains always an imminent danger.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to...

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to...

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...

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...

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the...

The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the...

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...

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...

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...

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and...

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and...