Everywhere we look we see the encroaching shadow of the police state.

Everyone, especially minorities of race and ethnicity, now live under a surveillance panopticon.

Youth are no longer the place where society reveals its dreams.

Public problems collapse into the limited and depoliticized register of private issues.

Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

We need to figure how to defend higher education as a public good. If we can't do that, we're in trouble.

Any dominant ideology operates off the assumption that what it has to say is unaccountable and unquestionable.

There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in the commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty.

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

Schools resemble the culture of prisons.

War is one of the nation's most honoured virtues, and its militaristic values now bear down on almost every aspect of American life.

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

The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current.

I think the very idea of the social contract is in disarray.

The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world.

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique.

I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.

The reality is wrong. Dreams are for real.