Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that was called cheatin….

In any totalitarian society, dissent is viewed as a threat, civic literacy is denounced, and those public spheres that produce engage citizens are di….

Young people live in a society in which every institution becomes an "inspection regime" - recording, watching, gathering information and storing dat….

Youth are becoming the site of society's nightmares..

Poor minorities live in a new age of Jim Crow, one in which the ravages of segregation, racism, poverty and dashed hopes are amplified by the forces ….

I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United States..

This violence is so pervasive. We see it in our schools, where we have more security guards now than teachers. We see it in California where more pri….

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military a….

There is a need to employ public memory, critical theory, and other intellectual archives and resources to expose the crimes of those market-driven c….

The real nightmare resides in a society that hides behind the mutually informing and poisonous notions of colorblindness and a post-racial society, a….

Today's neoliberalism has a number of byproducts. We have massive forms of inequality developing because there are no longer any concessions. There's….

State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds, desires, bodies a….

The promises of higher education and previously enviable credentials have turned into the swindle of fulfillment..

The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense of the transience, indefini….

Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them to simply consumers ….

You live in a country that's marked by celebrity culture, you know, that basically infantilizes people, paralyzes them, eliminates all notions of civ….

The rise of globalization, the rise of finance capital, the elimination of the manufacturing base, the decimation of the working class, particularly ….

Trump, like that canary in the coalmine, makes clear what elements of fascism are really like. Let's be honest. The racism, the ignorance, the stupid….

Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial service indust….

There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly children, t….

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a pu….