The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. Christopher Lasch
The left has come to regard common sense - the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community - as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. Christopher Lasch
The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense. Christopher Lasch
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum. Christopher Lasch
The 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. Christopher Lasch
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. Christopher Lasch
The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about. Christopher Lasch
Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it. Christopher Lasch
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. Christopher Lasch
