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Neoliberal terror and the age of disposability
by Henry A. Giroux The winners in the disposable society circulate close to the top of the power pyramid… Those who can’t afford to be on the move stand little chance…Market freedom means… Read More →
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The war against teachers as public intellectuals
by Henry A. Giroux “A little learning is a dangerous thing.” — Alexander Pope The tragic deaths of 26 people shot and killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., included 20… Read More →
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The New Extremism: Politics of distraction in the Age of Austerity
by Henry A. Giroux The debate in both Washington and the mainstream media over austerity measures, the alleged fiscal cliff and the looming debt crisis not only function to render anti-democratic...
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The vanishing point of democracy
by Henry A. Giroux We live at a time in the United States when the notion of political enemies has become a euphemism for dismantling prohibitions against targeted assassinations, torture, abductions...
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Criminalizing dissent and punishing Occupy protesters
by Henry A. Giroux Military-style command and control systems are now being established to support “zero tolerance” policing and urban surveillance practices designed to exclude failed consumers or...
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The politics of disimagination and the pathologies of power
by Henry A. Giroux You write in order to change the world knowing perfectly well that you probably can’t, but also knowing that [writing] is indispensable to the world. The world changes according…...
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Lockdown, USA: The Boston marathon manhunt
by Henry A. Giroux A tragedy of errors: nobody knows any more who is who. The smoke of the explosions forms part of the much larger curtain of smoke that prevents all of… Read More →
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Marching in Chicago: Resisting neoliberal savagery
by Henry A. Giroux Across the globe, predatory capitalism spreads its gospel of power, greed, commodification, gentrification, and inequality. Through the combined forces of a market driven ideology,...
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Teaching democracy and revolution
by Angelo J. Letizia The next dialectal step toward demolishing capitalism and bringing the next phase of the Enlightenment is brewing. As Marx noted, the present world contains the seeds to its own…...
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Capitalism’s dead zone: Chicago’s lessons on the violence of inequality
by Henry A. Giroux I consider the survival of [fascism] within democracy to be potentially more menacing that the survival of fascist tendencies against democracy. — Theodor W. Adorno Americans are...
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When schools become dead zones of the imagination: A critical pedagogy manifesto
Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must… Read More →
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Hope in a time of permanent war
by Henry A. Giroux Revolution is not ‘showing’ life to people, but making them live. A revolutionary organization must always remember that its objective is not getting its adherents to listen to...
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Intellectuals as subjects and objects of violence
by Henry A. Giroux Edward Snowden, Russ Tice, Thomas Drake, Jeremy Scahill, and Julian Assange, among others, have recently made clear what it means to embody respect for a public intellectual debate,...
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The ghost of Authoritarianism in the Age of the Shutdown
by Henry A. Giroux In the aftermath of the reign of Nazi terror in the 1940s, the philosopher Theodor Adorno wrote: National Socialism lives on, and even today we still do not know… Read More →
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Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University
by Henry A. Giroux The University is a critical institution or it is nothing. — Stuart Hall Let me begin with the words of the late African-American poet, Audre Lorde, who was in… Read More →
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End of Enlightenment? Not if we fight for it
by Angelo J. Letizia In a recent article, Dr. Henry Giroux argued that we may be witnessing the dismantling of democracy (Giroux, 2013). He pointed to the neoliberal assault on public education and…...
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Hope in the age of looming authoritarianism
by Henry A. Giroux I can understand pessimism, but I don’t believe in it. It’s not simply a matter of faith, but of historical evidence. Not overwhelming evidence, just enough to give hope,… Read More →
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Radical democracy against cultures of violence
by Henry A. Giroux Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. -- Nelson Mandela Guy Debord once argued that the spectacle suggests society’s desire for sleep.[1] He...
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Taking notes 31: The wolfman, capital and fugazi
by Sanjay Perera We welcome illusions because they spare us emotional distress, and enable us instead to indulge in gratification. We must not then complain if now and again they come into conflict…...
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Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State
by Henry A. Giroux Surveillance, in any land where it is ubiquitous and inescapable, generates distrust and divisions among its citizens, curbs their readiness to speak freely to each other, and...
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