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 1 Share Now -
The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family. - Christopher Lasch 2 Share Now -
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. - Christopher Lasch 3 Share Now -
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. - Christopher Lasch 4 Share Now -
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 5 Share Now -
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage. - Christopher Lasch 6 Share Now -
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. - Christopher Lasch 7 Share Now -
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 8 Share Now -