Trump erases the ability to recognize suffering and to try to understand the conditions that produce it, the ability to become a moral witness in the face of injustices. Trump erases that. Trump appeals to a population in which that becomes irrelevant. And that is so dangerous, at this particular time.

Young children are being arrested and subjected to court appearances for behaviors that can only be termed as trivial.

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

Students need to learn how to unlearn those elements of a market driven society that deform their sense of agency, reducing them to simply consumers or even worse to elements of a disposable population. So we need to understand who controls the means of public education and the larger forms of what Raymond Williams called the cultural apparatuses of permanent education both in terms of the dangers they pose and the possibilities they harbor.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

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

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 engulfing American society, we also need to create new forms of solidarity, new and broad based social movements that move beyond the isolated and fractured politics of the current historical moment.