It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

Look, in neoliberalism the ruling elite understand something.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals, educators, youth and other concerned citizens can play in fostering a reawakening of America's battered public memories.

Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold on American society (and in other parts of the world) along with the savage social costs they have enacted, the forms of social, political, and economic violence that young people are protesting against, as well as the violence waged in response to their protests, will become impossible to recognize and act on.

Once ignorance is weaponized, violence seems to be a tragic inevitability.

Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact that since 1970, the number of people behind bars... has increased 600 percent.