Author: Christopher Lasch

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Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

- 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.

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

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

- Christopher Lasch

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.

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.

- Christopher Lasch

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

- Christopher Lasch

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

- 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.

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

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.

- Christopher Lasch

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

- Christopher Lasch

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