Because it equates tradition with prejudice, the left finds itself increasingly unable to converse with ordinary people in their common language.
in Christopher Lasch QuotesIt is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to maintain wages at a level that allows a single wage to support a family.
in Christopher Lasch QuotesMost women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.
in Christopher Lasch QuotesNeoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
in Christopher Lasch QuotesThe news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
in Christopher Lasch QuotesThe family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life.
in Christopher Lasch QuotesThe left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
in Christopher Lasch QuotesThe same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
in Christopher Lasch QuotesAdherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
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