Conservatives sense a link between television and drugs, but they do not grasp the nature of this connection.

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

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

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.