Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the modern delusion that people can keep all their options open all the time.

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of 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.

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