I think we can see violence in a whole range of realms. We certainly see it in the media, where extreme violence is now so pervasive that people barely blink when they see it, and certainly raise very few questions about what it means pedagogically and politically. Violence is the DNA, the nervous system of this system's body politic.

Social bonds have given way under the collapse of social protections and the attack on the welfare state. Moreover, all solutions to socially produced problems are now relegated to the mantra of individual solutions.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

The pessimism of the intellect is the starting point for struggle. It's not the end point, it's the starting point. You have to make something critical to make it meaningful, to make it transformative.

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

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

Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination.