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.

History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology.

Under neoliberalism, you have a political-financial class that doesn't care about whether people are suffering. They float above politics. They have power and they don't care. They'll do anything to simply increase their wealth.

The promises of modernity regarding progress, freedom and hope have not been eliminated; they have been reconfigured, stripped of their emancipatory potential and relegated to the logic of a savage market instrumentality.

[Hillary Clinton] sort of very cautious kind of uncomfortable, clumsy interaction with the black lives movement, who are very smart in recognizing that historical memory matters, that those legacies live on when you don't identify them, when you're not willing to be in dialog with them, when you're not willing to be self-reflective about the very part that you played as part of that apparatus of power.

Increasingly, poor minority and white youth are being funneled directly from schools into prison.