The problem is that in America is that the nation state has been so weak when it comes to the history of big markets the history of big business in a way so we have a very weak welfare state compared to European nation states.

I think philosophy is all about lived experience, which is to say life in the streets, life in a variety of different contexts.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth

liberty, which means resisting all forms of cultural authoritarianism, be it from the right wing church, black ideologues, black nationalists, or mainstream white media. We have to accent liberty and freedom of expression and thought in all their forms.

Wall Street is stronger than ever.

In the practice of radical love, you are embracing human beings across the board, but you do give a preference - very much like Jesus - to the least of these, to the weak, to the vulnerable. That includes poor whites and poor browns, as well as the poor in black ghettos.

Poor people and working people have not been the focus of the Obama administration. That for me is not just a disappointment but a kind of betrayal.