Z Needs Your Help!
Trump has propagated a culture of violence and cruelty that is as unchecked as it is poisonous and dangerous to human life and democracy itself
Henry A. Giroux
Henry Giroux (born 1943) is an internationally renowned writer and cultural critic, Professor Henry Giroux has authored, or co-authored over 65 books, written several hundred scholarly articles, delivered more than 250 public lectures, been a regular contributor to print, television, and radio news media outlets, and is one of the most cited Canadian academics working in any area of Humanities research. In 2002, he was named as one of the top fifty educational thinkers of the modern period in Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the Present as part of Routledge’s Key Guides Publication Series.
The American public needs a new understanding of how civic institutions collapse under the force of state violence
Trump has dispensed with the fiction of democracy because he believes that in the interest of power both people and the planet are disposable, excess to be plundered and discarded
Can we find the language — and build a movement — to break out of our nation’s culture of cruelty?
A deep-rooted crisis in education, and a long cultural and political decline, is what got us here. There’s hope
Shutting Down American-Style Authoritarianism
Trump’s election… confirms that the dark and haunting possibilities of authoritarianism are upon us, and have made way for a more extreme and totalitarian form of late capitalism
There is more at work here than getting rid of Trump, there is a need to eliminate a system in which democracy is equated with capitalism, a system driven almost exclusively by financial interests
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between…
With his white supremacist ideology and racist contempt for Muslims on full display, President Trump has issued an executive order banning all…