Quotes About Christopher Lasch

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

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

It appears that the prostitute, not the salesman, best exemplifies the qualities indispensable to success in American society.

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.

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

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

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