Quotes About Lasch

The conservative revival cannot be dismissed.

Liberalism, Lasch declared, is "politically and intellectually bankrupt"; in its place, postindustrial America has created a postmodern "culture of narcissism,… which in its decadence has carried the logic of individualism to the extreme.

Christopher Lasch, who was Hofstadter's protégé at Columbia, believed Hofstadter's contempt for Populism in fact betrayed his cohort's "cultural prejudices" against the lower middle class.

Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.