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 )
By Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunchOct 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 )
By Eric Poulin, TruthoutMay 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 )
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By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutApr 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 )
By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutMar 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 )
By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutSep 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 )
By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutNov 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 )
By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutSep 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 )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigSep 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 )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigAug 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 )
By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutAug 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 )
By Henry A. Giroux, TruthoutJul 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 )
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