Neoliberalism, Democracy and the University as a Public Sphere

By Victoria Harper, Truthout Apr 24, 2014 Of neoliberalism, Truthout contributor Henry Giroux tells Victoria Harper in an interview: "Not only is it the latest stage of predatory capitalism, but it is also part of a broader project of restoring class power and consolidating the rapid concentration of capital, particularly financial capital." Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Beyond Neoliberal Miseducation

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Mar 22, 2014 Workers, students, youths and the poor are all considered expendable in this neoliberal global economy. Yet the one institution that offers opportunities to challenge anti-democratic tendencies is under attack in unparalleled ways. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Neoliberalism, Youth and Social Justice

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 14, 2014 In a special interview, Truthout contributor Henry Giroux takes us back to the basics of what can be seen as an ongoing and accelerating war between the rich and everyone else, an event that has resulted in a mass inability "to translate private troubles into larger structural public considerations." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Feb 10, 2014 When ruthlessly transgressed, privacy becomes a moral and political principle by which to assess the nature, power and severity of an emerging totalitarian state. Dig deeper ( 35 Min. Read )

Reclaiming the Radical Imagination

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Jan 14, 2014 We now live under a form of casino capitalism that revels in deception, kills the radical imagination, depoliticizes the American public and promulgates what might be called disimagination factories and punishing machines. Dig deeper ( 21 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 )

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 )

Challenging Casino Capitalism and Authoritarian Politics in the Age of Disposability

By Henry A. Giroux, Monthly Review Press Jun 27, 2013 Neoliberalism's ideology of competition strips schools of their civic and democratic project and hands them over to the logic of the market, helping to put authoritarianism, not democracy, on the rise in the United States in the twenty-first century. Dig deeper ( 25 Min. Read )

‘Indefinite Surveillance’ Under the 2014 NDAA?

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jun 20, 2013 The National Defense Authorization Act recently approved by the House would build on powers currently available to government to allow unrestricted access to all personal data collected "during combat operations from countries, organizations, or individuals, now or once hostile to the United States," political analyst Stephen Benavides reports at Truthout. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

In the Dead Zone of Capitalism: Lessons From Chicago on the Violence of Inequality

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Jun 6, 2013 While the superrich themselves live in an age of precarity due to the free-market economics they support, they largely escape its consequences through obscene amounts of wealth that enable them to buy private solutions to public problems. Dig deeper ( 20 Min. Read )

Marching in Chicago: Resisting Rahm Emanuel’s Neoliberal Savagery

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout May 25, 2013 Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s current attempt to close down 54 public schools largely inhabited by poor minorities is one more example of a savage, racist neoliberal system that uses the politics of austerity and consolidation to further disenfranchise unskilled youths in the inner city. Dig deeper ( 18 Min. Read )

Angela Davis: Education and the Meaning of Freedom

By Henry A. Giroux, Truthout Apr 11, 2013 Occasionally we meet the unsullied images, history and legacy of intellectuals who symbolize a rare combination of civic courage, political commitment and rigorous scholarship. Angela Davis is one of those exemplary individuals. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )