Birth: September 18, 1943
Whether we're talking about the New Deal or the Great Society: they didn't come about because they wanted to buy people off with "hush money." They w….
Remember what Hannah Arendt said when she was talking about fascism and totalitarianism. She said thoughtlessness is the essence of totalitarianism. ….
If the ongoing struggles waged by young people are to matter, demonstrations and protests must give way to more sustainable organizations that develo….
Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and o….
Neoliberalism is going to fail by being replaced. The system is entirely broken. Whenever you have a system that equates a market economy with a mark….
Trump provides a more direct and arrogant persona that produces the ugliness of a society ruled entirely by finance capital and savage market values,….
What has changed about an entire generation of young people includes not only neoliberal society's disinvestment in youth and the lasting fate of dow….
State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite and ca….
Mostly out of step, young people, especially poor minorities and low-income whites, are increasingly inscribed within a machinery of dead knowledge, ….
What they [ ruling elite] understand is that matters of desire, subjectivities, identities matter. And they take the cultural apparatuses that they c….
Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison..
As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to inv….
War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace..
Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams..
Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism..
There appears to be no space outside the panoptican of commercial barbarism and casino capitalism..
History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology..
Young people refuse to be defined exclusively as consumers rather than as workers, and they reject the notion that the only interests that matter are….
[Hillary Clinton] sort of very cautious kind of uncomfortable, clumsy interaction with the black lives movement, who are very smart in recognizing th….
The pedagogy of authoritarianism is alive and well in the United States, and its repression of public memory takes place not only through the screen ….
We have in this country something remarkable. We have the local version of the Soviets' Pravda. It trades in ignorance and lies and opinions, and mak….