Exile as a Space of Disruption in the Ivory Tower

By Henry A. Giroux / Disrupt(ED) Feb 8, 2016 The spaces of retreat from public life occupy too many institutions of higher education, which have been transformed into dead zones of the imagination mixed with a kind of brutalizing defense of their own decaying postures and search for status and profits. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The Curse of Totalitarianism and the Challenge of an Insurrectional Pedagogy

By Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch Oct 1, 2015 It is frightfully clear that the conditions for totalitarianism and state violence are with us, smothering critical thought, social responsibility, the ethical imagination and politics itself. Dig deeper ( 26 Min. Read )

AUDIO: Henry Giroux: Liberalism Fails Against Racism, Inequality and State Terrorism

By Eric Poulin, Truthout May 20, 2015 In two far-reaching interviews on the "Soap Box" with Eric Poulin, the social philosopher Henry Giroux defines establishment liberals by their persistent failure to address the obvious -- that capitalism and democracy are not the same thing. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Domestic Terrorism, Youth and the Politics of Disposability

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Apr 23, 2015 A new kind of infantilism now shapes daily life as adults gleefully take on the role of unthinking children and children are taught to be adults, stripped of their innocence and subject to a range of disciplinary pressures designed to cripple their ability to be imaginative. Dig deeper ( 21 Min. Read )

Higher Education and the Politics of Disruption

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Mar 21, 2015 Higher education is defined more and more as simply another core element of corporate power and culture, viewed mostly as a waste of taxpayers' money, and denied its value as a democratic public sphere and guardian of public values. Dig deeper ( 22 Min. Read )

Remembering Hiroshima in an Age of Neoliberal Barbarism

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Sep 12, 2014 Once an emancipatory project predicated on the right to study and engage the past critically, history under the reign of neoliberalism has receded into a depoliticizing culture of consumerism, a wholesale attack on science, the glorification of military ideals, an embrace of the punishing state, and a nostalgic invocation of the greatest generation. Dig deeper ( 25 Min. Read )

Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Nov 1, 2013 Lourde's defense of poetry as a mode of education is especially crucial for those of us who believe that the university is nothing if it is not a public trust and social good; that is a critical institution infused with the promise of cultivating intellectual insight, the imagination, inquisitiveness, risk-taking, social responsibility and the struggle for justice. Dig deeper ( 30 Min. Read )

Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Sep 26, 2013 What kind of society emerges when it is governed by the market-driven assumption that the only value that matters is exchange value, when the common good is denigrated to the status of a mall, and the social order is composed only of individuals free to pursue their own interests? Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )

The Fire of an Impassioned Academic

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Sep 22, 2013 A series of excerpts from a summer talk given to the Ontario Common Front -- an effort to build a broad resistance to the policies of Canada's conservative government -- show the zeal and precise theoretical insight of McMaster University professor and American cultural critic Henry Giroux. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Henry Giroux Against Bill and Melinda Gates

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Aug 25, 2013 In a Truthout video interview about his recent article "When Schools Become Dead Zones of Imagination," social critic Henry A. Giroux describes the neoliberal capture of public education as "an attempt to move away from understanding students as young people who have a voice, who have a sense of creativity, a sense of possibility." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

When Schools Become Dead Zones of Imagination

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Aug 17, 2013 Like the dead space of the American mall, the school systems promoted by billionaire un-reformers and titans of finance such as Bill Gates, Rupert Murdoch, the Walton family and Michael Bloomberg offer the empty ideological seduction of consumerism as the ultimate form of citizenship and learning. Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )

The Violence of Organized Forgetting

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Jul 23, 2013 America has become amnesiac -- a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated. Dig deeper ( 28 Min. Read )