Christopher Lasch
Christopher Lasch
ChristopherLaschwas an American historian, moralist, and social critic...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth1 June 1932
CountryUnited States of America
Christopher Lasch quotes about
news events commodity
The reporting of news has to be understood as propaganda for commodities, and events by images.
spiritual religious separation
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.
common-sense paine left
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
lasts three collapse
The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.
order moral birth
Progressive rhetoric has the effect of concealing social crisis and moral breakdown by presenting them as the birth pangs of a new order.
want advertising economic
Neoclassical economics insists that advertising cannot force consumers to buy anything they don't already want to buy.
encouragement jobs information
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
doom left environmentalism
Instead of taking environmentalism away from the left, conservatives condemn it as a counsel of doom.
people nuclear nuclear-families
Most people no longer live in nuclear families at all.