Birth: September 18, 1943
The issue of who gets to define the future, own the nation's wealth, shape the parameters of the social state, control the globe's resources, and cre….
Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality hea….
Social bonds have given way under the collapse of social protections and the attack on the welfare state. Moreover, all solutions to socially produce….
You can't wait neoliberalism out, because the class war will become more consolidated; the punishing state will increase. They'll increasingly solve ….
A symptomatic example of the way in which violence has saturated everyday life can be seen in the increased acceptance of criminalizing the behavior ….
The future doesn't have to mimic the worst parts of the present. There are new ways of sharing information, and as long as they don't give up on the ….
Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes..
Social solidarities are torn apart, furthering the retreat into orbits of the private that undermine those spaces that nurture non-commodified knowle….
We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream media, we no longer see it in t….
Young black men are not only being arrested and channeled into the criminal justice system in record numbers, they are also being targeted by the pol….
I think we can see violence in a whole range of realms. We certainly see it in the media, where extreme violence is now so pervasive that people bare….
The current siege on higher education, whether through defunding education, eliminating tenure, tying research to military needs, or imposing busines….
All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people told that they do no….
There is the emergence of a militarized society that now organizes itself for the production of violence. A society in which the range of acceptable ….
Under a neoliberal regime, the language of authority, power and command is divorced from ethics, social responsibility, critical analysis and social ….
Within neoliberal narratives, youth are mostly defined as a consumer market, a drain on the economy, or stand for trouble..
Individual struggles merge into larger social movements..
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of hum….
The issue should not be, we're going to tax you more to give you the services you want. The issue is, this is the wealthiest country in the world, an….
Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations..
We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble..