cultural criticism

We Are All Female and We All Hate It

Eric Newman / Los Angeles Review of Books Dec 15, 2019 A new book redefines “female” as the universal experience of “let[ting] someone else do your desiring for you, at your own expense.” Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance

By Henry A. Giroux / CounterPunch Oct 6, 2016 What happens when the spheres of morality and spirituality give way to a savage market rationality? Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Authoritarianism, Class Warfare and the Advance of Neoliberal Austerity Policies

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Jan 11, 2015 Capitalism has learned to create host organisms and in the current historical conjuncture one of those organisms is young people. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Hope in a Time of Permanent War

By Henry A Giroux, Truthout Sep 6, 2013 How might it be possible to imagine hope for a better world for humanity in a country that has sanctioned state torture, is about to bomb Syria and kill untold numbers of civilians, spies on its own citizens, extends the reach of the punishing state into all aspects of society, and inflicts violence on black and brown youths through racial profiling and the machinery of the mass incarceration state? Dig deeper ( 17 Min. Read )

Morris Berman and the Decline of America

Staff / Truthdig Feb 11, 2012 American cultural historian and social critic Morris Berman shared the findings in his new book “Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline” with an audience at Seattle’s Elliot Bay bookstore last fall. Like much of the tidings brought to us by the best of our sober-eyed critics, his forecast for the future of the republic and the welfare of its coming generations is not hopeful. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )