Broadcast 11/22/2017 at 5:19 PM EST (36 Listens, 80 Downloads, 3295 Itunes)
The Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show Podcast
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Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and is the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. His most recent books are The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism and,
America at War with Itself
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Authoritarianism
Trump's brand of authoritarianism
"Have to make power visible."
Powell memo
America is at war with its ideals
The task of challenging the new authoritarianism
"You can't about police violence without talking about neoliberalism."
Need to emphasize connections between diverse social formations
Need to refuse disconnection
Merging of education and politics
How do you identify neoliberals?
Massive tsunami of civil illiteracy
Apocalyptic Populism
Circles of Certainty= no grey areas
Chip away at neoliberalism's celebration of self interest
T he American public has become habituated to overstimulation and live in an ever-accelerating overflow of information and images.
Need for groups to come together.
Education as a force for creating agency, hope, mobilizing a desire for change
You say We need to reinvent a system from the one that is terminally broken
You refer to Casino capitalism--talk about it.
A culture of forgetting and lies .
Rabid individualism
Neoliberalism
Neoliberal authoritarianism
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