Author: Henry A. Giroux

Henry A. Giroux currently is the McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and The Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. His most recent books include The Violence of Organized Forgetting (City Lights, 2014), Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (Routledge, 2015), coauthored with Brad Evans, Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle (City Lights, 2015), and America at War with Itself (City Lights, 2016). His website is henryagiroux.com.

Neoliberal Fascism and the Echoes of History

The nightmares that have shaped the past and await return slightly just below the surface of American society are poised to wreak havoc on us again. America has reached a … Keep reading »

Social Movements, USA • August 20, 2018 • Henry A. Giroux
The Nightmare of Neoliberal Fascism – An interview with Henry A. Giroux

Mark Karlin (MK): Why is it important to have an historical understanding of fascism to shed light on the age of Trump? Henry A. Giroux (HG): The conditions leading to … Keep reading »

Social Movements, Theory, USA • June 18, 2018 • Henry A. Giroux and Mark Karlin
Henry Giroux – Higher Education and the Plague of Authoritarianism

Toronto – 26 October 2017 Higher education in our politically desperate age is threatened by a legacy that it does not dare to name and that legacy with its eerie … Watch video »

Economy, Theory • December 3, 2017 • Henry A. Giroux
Militant Hope in the Age of Trump

The United States stands at the endpoint of a long series of attacks on democracy, and the choices faced by the American public today point to the divide between those … Keep reading »

Theory, USA • January 13, 2017 • Henry A. Giroux
War Culture, Militarism and Racist Violence Under Trump

When history repeats itself with a vengeance, it generally signals a crisis of memory, historical consciousness and civic literacy. The ghosts of the past disappear in a comforting somnolence and … Keep reading »

Theory, USA, War/Peace • December 21, 2016 • Henry A. Giroux