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

Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us.

I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy.

The structures of neoliberal violence have put the vocabulary of democracy on life support, and one consequence is that subjectivity and education are no longer the lifelines of critical forms of individual and social agency.

As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

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

The rise of globalization, the rise of finance capital, the elimination of the manufacturing base, the decimation of the working class, particularly in terms of those who had some comforts that approximated what the middle class had.