Each marriage bears the footprints of economic and cultural trends which originate far outside marriage.

Most women work one shift at the office or factory and a 'second shift' at home.

Many of the young aspire to happy marriages and dot-com fortunes but end up in guarded love and okay-for-now jobs.

Many working families are both prisoners and architects of the time bind in which they find themselves.

And the Republican Party especially associates the market with the idea of progress, goodness, family, and points us toward the mall as an answer to all our personal dreams.

Here is a new car, a new iPhone. We buy. We discard. We buy again. In recent years, we've been doing it faster.

The surface of American life looks smooth, prosperous, peaceful. But underneath, fault-line shifts in family and work life have led us into what some have called 'advanced insecurity.

Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

Compared with the employed, the jobless are less likely to vote, volunteer, see friends and talk to family. Even on weekends, the jobless spend more time alone than those with jobs.

To televisionize any serious problem, the program directors face the task of making the message 'go down smooth' until the audience is delivered to the commercial.

The truth is, Japan is headed for crisis. We are in the hands of greedy businessmen and weak politicians. Such people will see to it poverty grows every day.

If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.

Jazz is a good barometer of freedom.

Religion is far more of a choice than homosexuality.

WikiLeaks is literally the worst place in the world to try and plant a false story.

It’s one of my loose theories that Catholicism and art have gone well together because both believe in the physical manifestation of the spiritual world.

Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

Hatred is the greatest cancer that we must squash.