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

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.

Think of the question of mass incarceration. Think of the coding that the Republican Party has used for years, whether they're talking about Obama or blacks or Willie Horton.

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

Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity.

The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified and disposable.

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

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

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

It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open.

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

Either we're a team or we aren't. Either you trust me or you don't.

I have wrought my simple planIf I give one hour of joyTo the boy who’s half a man, Or the man who’s half a boy.

Seek a secret, court danger.Bury a secret, avoid anger." ~ Angelica Hopes, If I Could Tell You

The possible is just the impossible that we've come to accept,

The first requirement in using statistics is that the facts treated shall be reduced to comparable units.

What makes you imagine ... that anything of importance can be taught in a school?

Cruelty depends on an understanding of cruelty, and the ability to choose against it. Or to choose to ignore it.

I was always telling everyone, I want to be a broadcaster. They'd say, What, are you crazy? What, you're going to be Arthur Godfrey?

Thats all I need. To find a soul mate to share my life with. To have a love so epic it will never die.

I am on the right wing of the middle of the road and with a strong radical bias.