These anti-public intellectuals are part of a disimagination machine that solidifies the power of the rich and the structures of the military-industr….

Confronting the intolerable should be challenging and upsetting. Who could read the testimonies of Primo Levi and not feel intellectually and emotion….

Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with ….

Rich people live in places so removed from everybody else, they operate in circles so incestuous and so closed, they're off on islands. To try to und….

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something..

The government now requisitions the publics' telephone records and sifts through its emails. It labels whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden as trai….

What many commentators have missed in the ongoing attack on Edward Snowden is not that he uncovered information that made clear how corrupt and intru….

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique..

Schools should be democratic public spheres. They should be places that educate people to be informed, to learn how to govern rather than be governed….

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability..

Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly….

In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has been increasingly directed ag….

The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that is….

You had workers' movements. You had left organizations, the Communist Party, that were mobilizing in profoundly powerful ways to basically address th….

Violence comes in many forms and can be particularly disturbing when confronted in an educational setting if handled dismissively or in ways that bla….

FDR was enormously influenced by this, and afraid. I mean, his intervention was to save capitalism. It wasn't to basically appease the workers. And I….

Abandoned by the existing political system, young people in Oakland, California, New York City, Quebec and numerous other cities throughout the globe….

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray..

Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses..

State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in which a….

Modernity has reneged on its promise to young people to provide social mobility, stability and collective security. Long-term planning and the instit….