The demise of higher education as a public good is also evident in light of the election of a number of right-wing politicians who are cutting funds ….

I mean, the people who got us into these crises - whether we're talking about the bankers or the hedge fund managers, or we're talking about the IMF ….

We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking and leads to violence..

It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the pledge of allegiance. There is more at work….

All that young people are promised today are the rewards of a shallow materialism and a degree that is defined primarily as a job credential, one tha….

We have never seen the isolation of the rich to the degree that we see it now. They're global. They travel all over the world. They're not in any way….

The real question is, until [Hillary Clinton] faces that legacy and admits that what her husband did was absolutely in the interest of a white suprem….

We need to educate students to be critical agents, to learn how to take risks, engage in thoughtful dialogue, and taking on the crucial issue what it….

Young people now reside in a world in which there are few public spheres or social spaces autonomous from the reach of the market, warfare state, deb….

University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy of a ….

I think, at some level, we see young people all over the country mobilizing around different issues, in which they're doing something that I haven't ….

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panoptican..

The prevailing move in American society to a permanent war status does more than promote a set of unifying symbols that embrace a survival of the fit….

I don't think the media is a reflection of anything. The media is an active political and pedagogical force that shapes reality. If the media were a ….

It's much better to talk about the media as a system of propaganda and abuse, of manufactured consent, than it is to claim it's some kind of democrat….

Politicians such as Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich along with talking heads such as Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Anne Coulter ar….

The war on terror, rebranded under Obama as the "Overseas Contingency Operation," has morphed into war on democracy..

I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy..

Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because the liberal….

We're talking about the Communist Party, the Socialist worker's movement, those movements basically have been underlined. We have other movements, bu….

If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators and ac….