The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types. – Christopher Lasch
Ostensibly rigorous and realistic, contemporary conservatism is an ideology of denial. Its symbol is a smile button. – Christopher Lasch
Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family their defense of families carries no conviction. – Christopher Lasch
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch