The Left Has Lost The Common Touch.

We Do Not Need To Minimize The Poverty Of The Ghetto Or The Suffering Inflicted By Whites On Blacks In Order To See That The Increasingly Dangerous And Unpredictable Conditions Of Middle-class Life Have Given Rise To Similar Strategies For Survival. Indeed The Attraction Of Black Culture For Disaffected Whites Suggests That Black Culture Now Speaks To A General Condition.

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.

The Left Has Lost The Common Touch.

The Job Of The Press Is To Encourage Debate, Not To Supply The Public With Information.

Ideologies, However Appealing, Cannot Shape The Whole Structure Of Perceptions And Conduct Unless They Are Embedded In Daily Experiences That Confirm Them.