Christopher Lasch

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God’s gift to the world. In a collectivist…

In our society, daily experience teaches the individual to want and need a never-ending…

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply…

The attempt to redefine the family as a purely voluntary arrangement grows out of the…

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and…

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its…

The family wage has been eroded by the same developments that have promoted consumerism as…

Propaganda in the ordinary sense of the term plays a less important part in a…

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family…

Knowledge is what we get when an observer, preferably a scientifically trained observer, provides us…

Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a…

The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system…

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they…

It is no longer an unwritten law of American capitalism that industry will attempt to…

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business…