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The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

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Christopher Lasch
Age: 61 †
Born: 1932
Born: June 1
Died: 1994
Died: February 14
Historian
Journalist
Social Critic
Sociologist
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Robert Christopher Lasch
Dismissed
Revival
Conservative
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The left has lost the common touch.
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Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
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[Reinhold] Niebuhr endorsed G.K.Chesterton’s observation that tolerance is the attitude of those who do not believe in anything.
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Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image.
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It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
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Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
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The left ask people to believe that there is no conflict between feminism and the family.
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Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
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The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
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Today Americans are overcome not by the sense of endless possibility but by the banality of the social order they have erected against it.
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Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.
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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.
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