The Public Intellectual

The hybridized concept of "manchild" marks a space in which innocence is lost and childhood stolen.

The public morality of American life and social policy regarding matters of racial justice are increasingly subject to a politics of denial.

The other America is the at times glitzy, often gaudy world of rampant commodification and sexualization.

While "post-racial" may mean less overt racism, the idea that we have moved into a post-racial period in American history is an act of willful denial and ignorance.

The potential for lucrative profits to be made off the spending habits and economic influence of kids has certainly not been lost on Disney.

Young people in the US face a fragile quality of life.

Unless Duncan is willing to reinvent himself, the national agenda he will develop for education will leave a lot more kids behind than it helps.

War is now defined almost exclusively as a punitive and militaristic process.

While there is an ongoing discussion about what shape the military-industrial complex will take under an Obama presidency, what is often left out of this analysis is the intrusion …

The Obama administration will fail badly if it does not connect the current financial and credit crisis to the crisis of democracy and its poisonous undoing by commanding market …