In which Henry A. Giroux — author of The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America’s Disimagination Machine, professor, and journalist with Truthout, a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing independent news and commentary on a daily basis, free from advertising and corporate backing — takes to The Soapbox to discuss the failures of the liberal class, the limitations of our existing commercial/corporate media structure, and the need for alternative approaches to education in service of reinventing the “radical imagination” required for a robust democracy.

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