Robert Hughes

Presents excerpts from 'Culture of Complaint--The Fraying of America,' concerning the distrust of formal politics in America in the late 1980s and early '90s. How entertainment sets education standards and creates 'truth' about the past; The rise of cult therapies that teach we are all victims of our parents; The self-defeating vogue for politically correct language; Possibility the politics of ideology has broken the traditional American genius for consensus.