Because It Equates Tradition With Prejudice, The

Most Women Are Pragmatists Who Have Allowed Extremists On The Left And Right To Manipulate The Family Issue For Their Own Purposes.

Adherents Of The New Religious Right Reject The Separation Of Politics And Religion, But They Bring No Spiritual Insights To Politics.

Even The Reporting Of News Has To Be Understood Not As Propaganda For Any Particular Ideology, Liberal Or Conservative, But As Propaganda For Commodities — For The Replacement Of Things By Commodities, Use Values By Exchange Values, And Events By Images.

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.

We Do Not Need To Minimize The Poverty Of The Ghetto Or The Suffering Inflicted By Whites On Blacks In Order To See That The Increasingly Dangerous And Unpredictable Conditions Of Middle-class Life Have Given Rise To Similar Strategies For Survival. Indeed The Attraction Of Black Culture For Disaffected Whites Suggests That Black Culture Now Speaks To A General Condition.