That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have to co….

Marginalized youth, workers, artists and others are raising serious questions about the violence of inequality and the social order that legitimates ….

We need to get rid of the growing army of temporary workers now filling the ranks of academy. This is scandalous; it weakens both the power of the fa….

At the same time, you see in those studies, you see the emergence of various movements among black youth that are really challenging the ideology of ….

I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating in the 1930s that seem….

Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the product of a collective ….

The rise of casino capitalism and the punishing state with their vast apparatuses of real and symbolic violence must be also addressed as part of a b….

Social bonds have given way under the collapse of social protections and the attack on the welfare state. Moreover, all solutions to socially produce….

Under the regime of neoliberalism, individual responsibility becomes the only politics that matters, and serves to blame those who are susceptible to….

I think that contradictions, unless they're understood, unless they're analyzed, unless they're thoughtfully probed, unless people have a sense of wh….

The cheerleaders for neoliberalism work hard to normalize dominant institutions and relations of power through a vocabulary and public pedagogy that ….

What is invaluable about Angela Davis work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects….

Even the notion that, you know,[Bill] Clinton was the black president strikes me as the greatest irony of all times..

Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state i….

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….

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty..

Only a well-organized movement of young people, educators, workers, parents, religious groups and other concerned citizens will be capable of changin….

In authoritarian societies, control over the production, distribution, and circulation is generally in the hands of the government, or what might be ….

Many conservatives see higher education as a threat to their reactionary and corporate oriented interests and would like to defund higher education, ….

Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality hea….

People often say that Trump "speaks the truth," right? But I think what really is happening is he's become a symbol of the kind of cynicism the Ameri….