Henry Giroux, Chaired Professor of Scholarship in the Public Interest at McMaster University, joins David to discuss neo-liberal fascism and whether fascism and authoritarian are valid descriptors of what Donald Trump has promised for his second term
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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.
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