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. 636
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business. 2.82K
A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction. 816
Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes. 655
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction. 598
It 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. 1.82K
The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as a way of life. 611
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. 619
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life. 2.47K
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. 2.47K
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. 817
The left has come to regard common sense – the traditional wisdom and folkways of the community – as an obstacle to progress and enlightenment. 662
