Cynicism, disillusionment, and a dispiriting sense of purposeless has cast a shadow over American society seriously draining it of any language or vi….

What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning of a long struggle for ….

A discourse for broad-based political change is crucial for developing a politics that speaks to a future that can provide sustainable jobs, decent h….

Very little appears to escape the infantilizing and moral vacuity of the market..

Schools resemble the culture of prisons..

Young people increasingly have become subject to an oppressive disciplinary machine that teaches them to define citizenship through the exchange prac….

They're rights that should be endemic to any democracy. The right to a free quality education, from elementary school right through higher education.….

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated..

How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution ….

War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society..

The loan crisis and the increasing slashing of funds for students, coupled with the astronomical rise in tuition, represent an unparalleled attack on….

The pessimism of the intellect is the starting point for struggle. It's not the end point, it's the starting point. You have to make something critic….

Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in the Black Lives Matter mo….

It seems to me that we make a terrible mistake in talking about Trump as some kind of essence of evil. Trump is symptomatic of something much deeper ….

Under neoliberalism, you have a political-financial class that doesn't care about whether people are suffering. They float above politics. They have ….

Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural life. Ignorance h….

We need to make clear that the economic crisis has to be matched by a crisis of ideas. That's the problem, right? The economic crisis is not matched ….

Unless you recognize the contradictions within various strata, you fall prey to a really kind of false homogenization that does not do justice to the….

Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy a….

But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the existing market fundamentalism engul….

Many university presidents assume the language and behavior of CEOs and in doing so they are completely reneging on the public mission of the univers….