Money does not bring happiness' - only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence..

It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse….

Even healthy families need outside sources of moral guidance to keep those tensions from imploding--and this means, among other things, a public phil….

in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm - a bland and neutral mainstream - from which every other….

When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are h….

Personally, I can't see why it would be any less romantic to find a husband in a nice four-color catalogue than in the average downtown bar at happy ….

In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond th….

People who just pretend to have a positive attitude may be more acceptable, but they will still attract according to how they are really vibrating- t….

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on..

Marriage is socialism among two people..

Warriors make wars, but it is also true that, in what has so far been an endless reproductive cycle, war makes warriors..

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy..

The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all..

The money that fueled the explosion of gluttony at the top had to come from somewhere or, more specifically, from someone. Since no domestic oil depo….

Historians differ on when the consumer culture came to dominate American culture. Some say it was in the twenties, when advertising became a major in….

Feminists have not tried to "destroy the family". We just thought the family was such a good idea that men might want to get involved in it too..

Lenders, including major credit companies as well as payday lenders, have taken over the traditional role of the street-corner loan shark, charging t….

I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don't understand how she can go so long without food. "Well, I don't understand how you can go so long ….

When you watch television, you never see people watching television. We love television because it brings us a world in which television does not exi….

Among other things, [books by Bruce Doyle III and Mike Hernacki] explain the importance of the "winning attitude" I have been urged to adopt: a posit….

The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that brought….