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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 dis the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. His most recent books are America's Addiction to Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, 2016), and America at War with Itself (City Lights, 2017). He is also a contributing editor to a number of journals, includingTikkun, the Journal of Wild Culture, and Ragazine. Giroux is also a member of Truthout's Board of Directors. His web site iswww.henryagiroux.com.
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Friday, May 13, 2022
The War on Youth in the Age of Fascist Politics - CounterPunch.org One of the most important registers in measuring the democratic health of a society can be found in how it treats its youth. By any current standard, which includes the quality of public schools to laws that protect the health and well-being of young people, the United States is failing miserably.
Friday, May 13, 2022The War on Youth in the Age of Fascist Politics - CounterPunch.org One of the most important registers in measuring the democratic health of a society can be found in how it treats its youth. By any current standard, which includes the quality of public schools to laws that protect the health and well-being of young people, the United States is failing miserably.
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Sunday, December 26, 2021
Paulo Freire and the Politics of Critical Pedagogy:A Legacy for Struggle For Paulo Freire, education was the foundation of politics and critical literacy was the emancipatory tool to unlock what it meant to make pedagogy meaningful in order to make it critical and empowering.
Sunday, December 26, 2021Paulo Freire and the Politics of Critical Pedagogy:A Legacy for Struggle For Paulo Freire, education was the foundation of politics and critical literacy was the emancipatory tool to unlock what it meant to make pedagogy meaningful in order to make it critical and empowering.
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Thursday, July 29, 2021
The Right Wing Wants Misinformation and Manufactured Ignorance, Not Democracy Ignorance now thrives in a world of interlacing disasters. This age of consuming catastrophes is part of an age of survival-of-the fittest economics fueled by the rise of right-wing hate, authoritarianism and political extremists.
Thursday, July 29, 2021The Right Wing Wants Misinformation and Manufactured Ignorance, Not Democracy Ignorance now thrives in a world of interlacing disasters. This age of consuming catastrophes is part of an age of survival-of-the fittest economics fueled by the rise of right-wing hate, authoritarianism and political extremists.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Police the People? Just Leave the People Be he words "I can't breathe" were not only uttered by Eric Garner and George Floyd as they were murdered by police. They were also uttered by over 70 others who died in law enforcement custody over the past decade.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021Police the People? Just Leave the People Be he words "I can't breathe" were not only uttered by Eric Garner and George Floyd as they were murdered by police. They were also uttered by over 70 others who died in law enforcement custody over the past decade.
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Saturday, June 19, 2021
To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing The words "I can't breathe" were not only uttered by Eric Garner and George Floyd as they were murdered by police. They were also uttered by over 70 others who died in law enforcement custody over the past decade.
Saturday, June 19, 2021To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing The words "I can't breathe" were not only uttered by Eric Garner and George Floyd as they were murdered by police. They were also uttered by over 70 others who died in law enforcement custody over the past decade.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
The Plague of Historical Amnesia in the Age of Fascist Politics As white supremacy becomes entrenched at the highest levels of power and in the public imagination, the past becomes a burden that must be shed.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021The Plague of Historical Amnesia in the Age of Fascist Politics As white supremacy becomes entrenched at the highest levels of power and in the public imagination, the past becomes a burden that must be shed.
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Friday, January 15, 2021
Downplaying Trumpism Is Dangerous Ten Republicans within the House of Representatives helped bestow on Trump the ignoble distinction this week of being the first president to be impeached twice, charging him with "incitement of insurrection."
Friday, January 15, 2021Downplaying Trumpism Is Dangerous Ten Republicans within the House of Representatives helped bestow on Trump the ignoble distinction this week of being the first president to be impeached twice, charging him with "incitement of insurrection."
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Saturday, December 12, 2020
The Centrality of Critical Education in Dark Times: a Tribute to Noam Chomsky on his 92nd Birthday Chomsky has made clear that intellectuals, artists, educators, and other cultural workers have a responsibility to use education to address grave social problems such as the threat of nuclear war, ecological devastation, and the sharp deterioration of democracy.
Saturday, December 12, 2020The Centrality of Critical Education in Dark Times: a Tribute to Noam Chomsky on his 92nd Birthday Chomsky has made clear that intellectuals, artists, educators, and other cultural workers have a responsibility to use education to address grave social problems such as the threat of nuclear war, ecological devastation, and the sharp deterioration of democracy.
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Monday, October 26, 2020
Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and Resistance in Dark Times Across the globe, democratic institutions such as the independent media, schools, the legal system, certain financial institutions, and higher education are under siege.
Monday, October 26, 2020Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and Resistance in Dark Times Across the globe, democratic institutions such as the independent media, schools, the legal system, certain financial institutions, and higher education are under siege.
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Monday, October 5, 2020
Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness In this age of uncertainty, time and space have collapsed into a void of relentless apprehension and the possibility of an authoritarian abyss. The terrors of everyday life point to a world that has descended into darkness.
Monday, October 5, 2020Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness In this age of uncertainty, time and space have collapsed into a void of relentless apprehension and the possibility of an authoritarian abyss. The terrors of everyday life point to a world that has descended into darkness.
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
Trump aligns ignorance with bigotry as he attempts to rewrite history Trump has made clear his attempt to both defend and rewrite the history of racial injustice in the United States while eliminating the institutions that make visible its historical roots.
Thursday, September 17, 2020Trump aligns ignorance with bigotry as he attempts to rewrite history Trump has made clear his attempt to both defend and rewrite the history of racial injustice in the United States while eliminating the institutions that make visible its historical roots.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Trump's "Law and Order" Rhetoric Is a Rallying Cry for State Violence Violence is a term that should be limited to assaults, injuries and harm waged against human beings, not property. When talking about violence, it is crucial to make a distinction between the destruction of property and violence against persons.
Wednesday, September 9, 2020Trump's "Law and Order" Rhetoric Is a Rallying Cry for State Violence Violence is a term that should be limited to assaults, injuries and harm waged against human beings, not property. When talking about violence, it is crucial to make a distinction between the destruction of property and violence against persons.
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Friday, June 26, 2020
Lawlessness in Trump's Fascist State: Bill Barr and the Ghost of Fascism Barr places the President above the law, defining him as a kind of unitary sovereign. In addition, he appears to relish in his role as a craven defender of Trump, all the while justifying a notion of blind executive authority in the face of Trump's endless lies, racist policies, and lawlessness,
Friday, June 26, 2020Lawlessness in Trump's Fascist State: Bill Barr and the Ghost of Fascism Barr places the President above the law, defining him as a kind of unitary sovereign. In addition, he appears to relish in his role as a craven defender of Trump, all the while justifying a notion of blind executive authority in the face of Trump's endless lies, racist policies, and lawlessness,
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Monday, June 1, 2020
Racial Domestic Terrorism and the Legacy of State Violence Neoliberal fascism has taken off the gloves and now resorts to outright terror to keep people of color in check. Every space in the U.S. that people of color occupy is militarized.
Monday, June 1, 2020Racial Domestic Terrorism and the Legacy of State Violence Neoliberal fascism has taken off the gloves and now resorts to outright terror to keep people of color in check. Every space in the U.S. that people of color occupy is militarized.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Criminogenic Politics as a Form of Psychosis in the Age of Trump In its late stages, capitalism morphs into a form of neoliberal fascism. One consequence is not merely a criminogenic political and economic system, but a state of barbarism that reflects a death-dealing psychosis among political leaders such as Trump and Bolsonaro.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020Criminogenic Politics as a Form of Psychosis in the Age of Trump In its late stages, capitalism morphs into a form of neoliberal fascism. One consequence is not merely a criminogenic political and economic system, but a state of barbarism that reflects a death-dealing psychosis among political leaders such as Trump and Bolsonaro.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020
The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism The financial crisis of 2008 made visible the plague of neoliberalism that has for over 40 years ravaged the public good and imposed misery and suffering upon the poor and others considered excess, waste or dangerous.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism The financial crisis of 2008 made visible the plague of neoliberalism that has for over 40 years ravaged the public good and imposed misery and suffering upon the poor and others considered excess, waste or dangerous.
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Saturday, February 29, 2020
Cult-Like Ignorance is Death: Trump and the Coronavirus Trump and his merry band of incompetent lackeys are symbols of a necropolitics that is wedded to destruction, violence, greed, falsehoods, and the needs of capital. Terminal idiocy, cult like absolutism, bottomless ignorance, and unbridled arrogance and narcissism have given rise to a form of neoliberal fascism and a culture of cruelty unlike anything we have seen since the 1930s.
Saturday, February 29, 2020Cult-Like Ignorance is Death: Trump and the Coronavirus Trump and his merry band of incompetent lackeys are symbols of a necropolitics that is wedded to destruction, violence, greed, falsehoods, and the needs of capital. Terminal idiocy, cult like absolutism, bottomless ignorance, and unbridled arrogance and narcissism have given rise to a form of neoliberal fascism and a culture of cruelty unlike anything we have seen since the 1930s.
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Thursday, February 6, 2020
Trump's SOTU Speech Bristled With Fascist Politics The impeachment process speaks not only to Trump's ongoing criminal behavior and pernicious policies, but also to a mass crisis of civic literacy and the inability of the public to understand how society has broken apart, become crueler, and receded from the language of critique, hope and the social imagination.
Thursday, February 6, 2020Trump's SOTU Speech Bristled With Fascist Politics The impeachment process speaks not only to Trump's ongoing criminal behavior and pernicious policies, but also to a mass crisis of civic literacy and the inability of the public to understand how society has broken apart, become crueler, and receded from the language of critique, hope and the social imagination.
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Monday, January 20, 2020
The Battle to Impeach Trump Is Part of a Global Struggle for Democracy Trump's impeachment battle is part of the wider historical and global struggle taking place over democracy. In different ways, both parties have hollowed out democratic institutions and cozied up to dictators.
Monday, January 20, 2020The Battle to Impeach Trump Is Part of a Global Struggle for Democracy Trump's impeachment battle is part of the wider historical and global struggle taking place over democracy. In different ways, both parties have hollowed out democratic institutions and cozied up to dictators.
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Saturday, December 7, 2019
We Must Overcome Our Atomization to Beat Back Neoliberal Fascism Movements in Chile, Colombia and Ecuador have gained momentum by resisting the isolation imposed by neoliberalism.
Saturday, December 7, 2019We Must Overcome Our Atomization to Beat Back Neoliberal Fascism Movements in Chile, Colombia and Ecuador have gained momentum by resisting the isolation imposed by neoliberalism.
