The Conservative Revival Cannot Be Dismissed.

When Liberals Finally Grasped The Strength Of Popular Feeling About The Family, They Cried To Appropriate The Rhetoric And Symbolism Of Family Values For Their Own Purposes.

The Attempt To Redefine The Family As A Purely Voluntary Arrangement Grows Out Of The Modern Delusion That People Can Keep All Their Options Open All The Time.

Once Women Begin To Question The Inevitability Of Their Subordination And To Reject The Conventions Formerly Associated With It, They Can No Longer Retreat To The Safety Of Those Conventions. The Woman Who Rejects The Stereotype Of Feminine Weakness And Dependence Can No Longer Find Much Comfort In The Clich? That All Men Are Beasts. She Has No Choice Except To Believe, On The Contrary, That Men Are Human Beings, And She Finds It Hard To Forgive Them When They Act Like Animals.

Because Politics Rests On An Irreducible Measure Of Coercion, It Can Never Become A Perfect Realm Of Perfect Love And Justice.

Adherents Of The New Religious Right Reject The Separation Of Politics And Religion, But They Bring No Spiritual Insights To Politics.