Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

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

Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with others and with the larger world. Pedagogy in this sense provides not only important critical and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to intervene critically in the world.

Violence now becomes the only tool by which we can actually mediate social problems that should be dealt with in very different ways.

A discourse for broad-based political change is crucial for developing a politics that speaks to a future that can provide sustainable jobs, decent health care, quality education and communities of solidarity and support for young people.

FDR was enormously influenced by this, and afraid. I mean, his intervention was to save capitalism. It wasn't to basically appease the workers. And I think that today you don't have those movements.

War is one of the nation's most honored virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.