Far from creating independent thinkers, schools have always, throughout history, played an institutional role in a system of control and coercion. And once you are well educated you have already been socialized in ways that support the power structure, which, in turn, rewards you immensely.

Now financial liberalization is just a catastrophe waiting to happen, and there are very well understood reasons for that.

As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.

Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition.

In the United States everyone is an illegal immigrant - everyone except the people in Indian Reservations. This is an immigrant society.

I think it only makes sense to seek out and identify structures of authority, hierarchy, and domination in every aspect of life, and to challenge them; unless a justification for them can be given, they are illegitimate, and should be dismantled, to increase the scope of human freedom.

It's roughly the case that if systems become too complex to study in sufficient depth, physics hands them over to chemistry, then to biology, then experimental psychology, and finally on to history. Roughly. These are tendencies, and they tend to distinguish roughly between hard and soft sciences.