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Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button.
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.
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us with a copy of reality that we can all recognize.
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction.
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.