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.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

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

An airplane should never lean too much to the left or the right, because it puts every passenger into a panic and fear. Politics are much the same. Better to be balanced on both sides than to fly on a crazy angle.

Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.

The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.