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

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

Instead of schools being a pipeline to opportunity, schools are feeding our prisons.

When we talk about total war, and we talk about war zones, and we talk about the breakdown of the cities, when you exclude questions of race from that discourse, something disappears that's really central to the forms of repression that we're talking about.

As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability.

It seems to me that we make a terrible mistake in talking about Trump as some kind of essence of evil. Trump is symptomatic of something much deeper in the culture, whether we're talking about the militarization of everyday life, whether we're talking about the criminalization of social problems, or whether we're talking about the way in which money has absolutely corrupted politics. This is a country that is sliding into authoritarianism.

That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have to convince labor, parents, and the general public that the fight over higher education is a fight that benefits everyone in a sustainable democracy and not just faculty and students.