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The United States has entered a new historical era marked by a growing disinvestment in the social state, public goods, and civic…
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.
"This isn't a student strike, it's the awakening of society." -Quebec protest banner Across the globe, young people are speaking out. They…
In both the United States and many other countries, students are protesting against rising tuition fees, the increasing financial burdens they are forced…
While there is an ongoing discussion about the increasing corporatization of higher education—extending from the attempted buying of faculty positions by right-wing billionaires…
The following essay is excerpted from the preface to Henry Giroux's "Hearts of Darkness: Torturing Children in the War on Terror" (Paradigm Publishers 2010).…
At a time when memory is being erased and the political relevance of education is dismissed in the language of measurement and…
As a young kid growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, I was always conscious of what it meant to be a white…
When our fears have all been serialized, our creativity censured, our ideas "marketplaced," our intelligence sloganized, our strength downsized, our privacy auctioned;…
While the "empire of consumption" has been around for a long time[1], American society in the last 30 years has undergone a…
We live at a time that might be appropriately called the age of the disappearing intellectual, a disappearance that marks with disgrace…