Henry Giroux
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I finished my latest book tonight, Disappearing Futures: Education Against the Politics of Erasure, and will send it to my publishers Bloomsbury on Monday. This was really a labor of love.
November 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I finished my latest book tonight, Disappearing Futures: Education Against the Politics of Erasure, and will send it to my publishers Bloomsbury on Monday. This was really a labor of love.
The attack on memory and the rewriting of history is more than an act of censorship it is a form of state terrorism.
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Death of Memory Is the Death of Democracy
This war on memory is not just theoretical; it takes concrete form in the attacks on institutions that hold our collective history.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The attack on memory and the rewriting of history is more than an act of censorship it is a form of state terrorism.
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When a U.S. president embraces a foreign strongman notorious for murder, torture, and censorship, something far larger than diplomacy is at stake: fascism replaces any pretense to democratic ideals. truthout.org/articles/in-...
In Courting Saudi Arabia, Trump Emulates Mohammed Bin Salman’s Authoritarianism
Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman are united by their shared ideology of censorship and state violence.
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November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
When a U.S. president embraces a foreign strongman notorious for murder, torture, and censorship, something far larger than diplomacy is at stake: fascism replaces any pretense to democratic ideals. truthout.org/articles/in-...
Hi Everyone, this article turns to the warning signs that none of us can afford to ignore in an age marked by rising authoritarianism and expanding state violence.
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The Warning We Ignore at Our Peril: From El Salvador’s Dungeons to America’s Doorstep
We inhabit a historical moment that resurrects, with chilling familiarity, the state terrorism once made visible under Hitler, Franco, Mussolini, Pinochet, and other dictators who transformed cruelty ...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Hi Everyone, this article turns to the warning signs that none of us can afford to ignore in an age marked by rising authoritarianism and expanding state violence.
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In America’s theatre of the undead, fascism advances under the glow of gangster capitalism while the Democratic Party stands paralyzed, mistaking cowardice for compromise. www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
In America’s theatre of the undead, fascism advances under the glow of gangster capitalism while the Democratic Party stands paralyzed, mistaking cowardice for compromise. www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...
Given the enormous threats to education being waged by tyrants all across the globe, I wanted to post this video which argues against the idiotic claim that education is not political, which really is the bedrock for a pedagogy of repression.
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Henry Giroux: “All education is a struggle over what kind of future you want for young people"
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November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Given the enormous threats to education being waged by tyrants all across the globe, I wanted to post this video which argues against the idiotic claim that education is not political, which really is the bedrock for a pedagogy of repression.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCMX...
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A reminder to join this talk on education and the practice of freedom by the famed economist Richard Wolff this Thursday at McMaster University
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To Challenge our Education System is to Practice Freedom – Faculty of Humanities | McMaster University
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November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A reminder to join this talk on education and the practice of freedom by the famed economist Richard Wolff this Thursday at McMaster University
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The renown economist and public intellectual Richard Wolff will be giving a lecture on my Public Intellectual project on November 13, 2025 at 7:00pm.
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To Challenge our Education System is to Practice Freedom with Richard D. Wolff
YouTube video by McMaster Humanities
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November 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
The renown economist and public intellectual Richard Wolff will be giving a lecture on my Public Intellectual project on November 13, 2025 at 7:00pm.
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My article on Trump's Politics of Defecation:
When protest is met not with words but with feces raining from the sky,what you’re seeing is less spectacle than the grammar of authoritarianism.
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When protest is met not with words but with feces raining from the sky,what you’re seeing is less spectacle than the grammar of authoritarianism.
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Trump’s Politics of Defecation
Recently, Donald Trump shared a video known as the “Flying King”-- an AI-generated spectacle in which he pilots a fighter plane emblazoned with the words “King Trump,” raining brown sludge, representi...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
My article on Trump's Politics of Defecation:
When protest is met not with words but with feces raining from the sky,what you’re seeing is less spectacle than the grammar of authoritarianism.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/28/t...
When protest is met not with words but with feces raining from the sky,what you’re seeing is less spectacle than the grammar of authoritarianism.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/10/28/t...
My in-depth conversation with Joy LaClaire on the gathering storms unleashed by the Trump administration, attacks on truth, justice, and democracy. Our exchange captures both the peril and the possibility of resistance.
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Henry Giroux and Nate Bellinger
Today’s show is in two parts. First, longtime friend of Forthright Radio, scholar, public intellectual, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest, and The Paulo Freire Distin…
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October 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
My in-depth conversation with Joy LaClaire on the gathering storms unleashed by the Trump administration, attacks on truth, justice, and democracy. Our exchange captures both the peril and the possibility of resistance.
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My latest article on “When Law Becomes Crime,”-- at the center of authoritarianism lies a machinery of state violence: abductions, the erosion of due process, and the weaponization of government to punish critics and institutions deemed enemies of the people.
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October 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
My latest article on “When Law Becomes Crime,”-- at the center of authoritarianism lies a machinery of state violence: abductions, the erosion of due process, and the weaponization of government to punish critics and institutions deemed enemies of the people.
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An extended version of my article on Stephen Miller and the making of the fascist subject. www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
An extended version of my article on Stephen Miller and the making of the fascist subject. www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...
My article on Stephen Miller and the making of the fascist subject. Miller is a driving force behind most of the egregious, terrifying, and morally bankrupt policies driving Trump's authoritarianism.-Please share:
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Stephen Miller and the Making of the Fascist Subject
Orchestrated brutality reflected not only Miller’s ideology but also his personality. Even his former colleagues described him as insufferable, “rude, arrogant, and consumed by a sense of his own supe...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
My article on Stephen Miller and the making of the fascist subject. Miller is a driving force behind most of the egregious, terrifying, and morally bankrupt policies driving Trump's authoritarianism.-Please share:
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My piece on Trump's America Echoes a Fascist Past.
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Trump’s America: Echoes of a Fascist Past
“Historically, the most terrible things war, genocide, and slavery have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” — Howard Zinn The irony is unbearable. US President Donald Trump has satura...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
My piece on Trump's America Echoes a Fascist Past.
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My Interview with TV Metro Canada on cultural fascism and youth resistance-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q0scfzHMyg
October 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
My Interview with TV Metro Canada on cultural fascism and youth resistance-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q0scfzHMyg
My article in Policy an Futures on "Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression"
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Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression | Development Education Review
The war at home – state terrorism on full displayAcross the globe, we are living in a moment of profound crisis where the very essence of education as a democratic institution is under attack (Giroux ...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
My article in Policy an Futures on "Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression"
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“Gangster capitalism & nostalgic authoritarianism in Trump’s America”: Henry Giroux via Salon
Monthly Review Press Blog
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"Gangster capitalism & nostalgic authoritarianism in Trump’s America": Henry Giroux via Salon - Monthly Review
Henry A. Giroux, founding figure in the movement for critical pedagogy and author of more than sixty books, including America’s Addiction to Terrorism and America’s Education Deficit and the War on Yo...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
“Gangster capitalism & nostalgic authoritarianism in Trump’s America”: Henry Giroux via Salon
Monthly Review Press Blog
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Monthly Review Press Blog
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On Culture and the Crisis of Capitalism
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Economic Update: Capitalism and Culture, Their Connection in Crisis Now
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October 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
On Culture and the Crisis of Capitalism
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The Road to the Camps in Trump's America" exposes how the symbols, policies, and strategies that defined fascist regimes are re-emerging today under Trump, not as distant memories, but as urgent warnings written into the fabric of the political moment. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/t...
The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past
The irony is unbearable. Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption and violence the grammar of governance. He pledges ...
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September 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
The Road to the Camps in Trump's America" exposes how the symbols, policies, and strategies that defined fascist regimes are re-emerging today under Trump, not as distant memories, but as urgent warnings written into the fabric of the political moment. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/t...
My latest article which traces how echoes of past fascist strategies are resurfacing today in alarming ways: ‘The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past’. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/t...
The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past
The irony is unbearable. Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption and violence the grammar of governance. He pledges ...
www.counterpunch.org
September 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
My latest article which traces how echoes of past fascist strategies are resurfacing today in alarming ways: ‘The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past’. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/t...
My interview with Allen Ruff on living on the raw edge of democracy--draws heavily on my article The Road to the Camps which will be published by CounterPunch tomorrow 9-26-25
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We’re Living on the Raw Edge of Violence - WORT-FM 89.9
Henry Giroux reflects on the state of US politics, the reality of neoliberal fascism, the weakness of legacy media, and how to find hope.
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September 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
My interview with Allen Ruff on living on the raw edge of democracy--draws heavily on my article The Road to the Camps which will be published by CounterPunch tomorrow 9-26-25
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My article co-authored with Will Paul on Pedagogies of Repression: Ford, Trump and the War on Education
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Pedagogies of Repression
Analyses of fascism too often fixate on its most spectacular expressions: staggering inequality, systemic racism, the militarization of daily life, unbridled corruption, monopolistic control of the me...
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September 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My article co-authored with Will Paul on Pedagogies of Repression: Ford, Trump and the War on Education
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Trump’s Theater of Cruelty - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/12/t...
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September 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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My article on Charlie Kirk’s Death as s a Symptom of a National Political Culture in Crisis-one that is barely mentioned
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Charlie Kirk’s Death Is a Symptom of a National Political Culture in Crisis
What we are witnessing is not an isolated act but the manifestation of a wider rot.
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September 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
My article on Charlie Kirk’s Death as s a Symptom of a National Political Culture in Crisis-one that is barely mentioned
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My article on Trump's Theater of cruelty, which is about to get worse given his declaration of war education, the truth, and on what he calls the left--which amounts to any individual, group, or institution that rejects his war on democracy. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/12/t...
Trump’s Theater of Cruelty
Trump’s obsession with violence is more than a grotesque fixation on power and cruelty; it is a commentary on politics as pathology, a grim theater in which authoritarianism reveals its inner logic. W...
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September 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
My article on Trump's Theater of cruelty, which is about to get worse given his declaration of war education, the truth, and on what he calls the left--which amounts to any individual, group, or institution that rejects his war on democracy. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/12/t...