In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think the other side of this is in this balance between the social state and the punishing state, remember, the social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It has been difficult for [young people in the U.S.] to connect the dots between rising tuition costs and other assaults on… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The nature of the issues facing U.S. students is a bit more complicated in the U.S. because the assault on the social… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The present generation has been born into a throwaway society of consumers in which both goods and young people are increasingly objectified… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We're talking about the Communist Party, the Socialist worker's movement, those movements basically have been underlined. We have other movements, but they're… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Widespread violence now functions as part of an anti-immune system that turns the economy of genuine pleasure into a mode of sadism… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Students, in particular, now find themselves in a world in which heightened expectations have been replaced by dashed hopes. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The ideology of neoliberalism, with its privatization, its deregulation, its emphasis on consumption, its elimination of basically apparatuses that can provide alternative… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The promises of modernity regarding progress, freedom and hope have not been eliminated; they have been reconfigured, stripped of their emancipatory potential… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think we're in a very distinctively different historical moment. I mean, I think that you had two things that were operating… — 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