The ideology of hardness and cruelty runs through American culture like an electric current... — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Young black men are considered dangerous, expendable, threatening and part of a culture of criminality. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As the welfare state is hollowed out, a culture of compassion is replaced by a culture of violence, cruelty and disposability. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is a need for subjects who find intense pleasure in commodification of violence and a culture of cruelty. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It seems to me that as economics drives politics and money markets set policies, what we have is an enormously powerful emergence… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Young black men are guilty of criminal behavior not because of the alleged crimes they might commit but because they are the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
You live in a country that's marked by celebrity culture, you know, that basically infantilizes people, paralyzes them, eliminates all notions of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The social media not only become new platforms for the invasion of privacy, but further legitimate a culture in which monitoring functions… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is more to the culture of cruelty than simply ethically challenged policies that benefit the rich and punish the poor, particularly… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We need to educate young people to deal with new modes of education that are emerging with the new electronic technologies and… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Higher educating is defaulting on its obligations to offer young people a quality and broad-based education. This is true in part because… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Where neoliberalism thrives is in having done something that we haven't seen before. There is a merging of culture, politics, and power… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The production of knowledge in schools today is instrumental, wedded to objective outcomes, privatized, and is largely geared to produce consuming subjects.… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, we live at a moment in which ignorance appears to be one of the defining features of American political and cultural… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Trump is the living embodiment of the main character in the film American Psycho, a symbol of corporate domination on steroids, an… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Marked by a virulent notion of hardness and aggressive masculinity, a culture of violence has become commonplace in a society in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As a mode of public pedagogy, a state of permanent war needs willing subjects to abide by its values, ideology, and narratives… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Cinema is consistently making a claim to particular memories, histories, ways of life, identities, and values that always presuppose some notion of… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The propensity to avoid moral considerations was producing not simply a politically illiterate and authoritarian society, but one that was increasingly saturated… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The pedagogy of authoritarianism is alive and well in the United States, and its repression of public memory takes place not only… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It seems to me that we make a terrible mistake in talking about Trump as some kind of essence of evil. Trump… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Margaret Thatcher in Britain and soon after Ronald Reagan in the United States - both hard-line advocates of market fundamentalism - announced… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is no genuine democracy without an informed public. While there are no guarantees that a critical education will prompt individuals to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is an attempt to deskill teaches by removing matters of conception from implementation. Teachers are no longer asked to be creative,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
State violence, particularly the use of torture, abductions, and targeted assassinations are now justified as part of a state of exception in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We have in this country something remarkable. We have the local version of the Soviets' Pravda. It trades in ignorance and lies… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The issue of who gets to define the future, own the nation's wealth, shape the parameters of the social state, control the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Conservative and liberal politicians alike now spend millions waging wars around the globe, funding the largest military state in the world, providing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The Left doesn't realize that unless you create a formative culture and a critical consciousness capable of changing the way people think… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses not to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Today's neoliberalism has a number of byproducts. We have massive forms of inequality developing because there are no longer any concessions. There's a war… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
At the start of the second decade of the 21st century, young people all over the world are demonstrating against a variety of issues… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
America is at war with itself because it's basically declared war not only on any sense of democratic idealism, but it's declared war on… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
All too often the worst thing that can happen to the young is to depoliticize them. When that happens, not only are young people… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The generation of youth in the early 21st century has no way of grasping if they will ever be free from the gnawing sense… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
History remains an open horizon that cannot be dismissed through appeals to the end of history or end of ideology. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I mean, we're not talking about simply racism, we're taking about white supremacy. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Historical memory is a potent weapon in fighting against the desert of organized forgetting and implies a rethinking of the role that artists, intellectuals,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
