The Public Intellectual

Any rigorous conception of youth must take into account the inescapable intersection of the personal, social, political and pedagogical embodied by young people.

Racism today has been both reconfigured and made invisible with regard to its real victims.

The spectacle of terror and fear has developed a singular focus of communication and control.

We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace a particularly dangerous period in American history. …

The demonization of Islam as a religion and of its adherents as individuals has reached the level of hysteria within the United States.

America's political and economic elites have declared a war on working, middle-class and poor Americans. Now that war is coming to a head with the draconian cuts in education, …

Public schooling is more and more being shaped by a pedagogy of containment, security and conformity that undermines critical thought.

The United States' choice to deal with its financial crisis by further weakening public and higher education is devastating.

The new zombies have an increasing presence in the death chambers of high finance, the highest reaches of government and in the forefront of mainstream media.

We must take matters of education seriously if we are going to survive as a democracy.