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Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist, echoing the feelings of many progressives, recently wrote in The New York Times about how dismayed…
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.
C. Wright Mills argued 50 years ago that one important measure of the demise of vibrant democracy and the corresponding impoverishment of…
President Obama talks about his school improvement plan in Ohio. (Photo: Reuters / Jason Reed) Barack Obama views education as a high…
With the election of Barack Obama, it has been argued that not only will the social state be renewed in the spirit…
Casino capitalism may be getting a bad rap in the mainstream media, but the values that nourish it are alive and well…
As the United States and the rest of the world enter into an economic free fall, the current crisis offers an opportunity…
Already imperiled before the recent economic meltdown, the quality of life for many young people appears even more fragile in the United…
As the financial meltdown reaches historic proportions, free-market fundamentalism, or neoliberalism as it is called in some quarters, is losing both its…
The dismantling of the corporatized and militarized model of schooling should be a top priority under the Obama administration. Unfortunately, Obama has…
Under the Bush administration, the language of war has taken on a distinctly new register, more expansive in both its meaning and…