The government now requisitions the publics' telephone records and sifts through its emails. It labels whistle-blowers such as Edward Snowden as traitors,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
State violence cannot be defined simply as a political issue but also as a pedagogical issue that wages violence against the minds,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Unless you recognize the contradictions within various strata, you fall prey to a really kind of false homogenization that does not do… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Violence maims not only the body but also the mind and spirit. As Pierre Bourdieu has argued, it lies "on the side… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of… — 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
Until educators, individuals, artists, intellectuals and various social movements address how the metaphysics of casino capitalism, war and violence have taken hold… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
How young people are represented betrays a great deal about what is increasingly new about the economic, social, cultural and political constitution… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Rich people live in places so removed from everybody else, they operate in circles so incestuous and so closed, they're off on… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Neoliberalism eats its own children. Disposability is central to how neoliberalism functions. I would not like to romanticize that, though, by suggesting… — 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
You don't have any vestige of democracy in this country. A report recently came out of Princeton University claiming that, of all… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Of course, there are also faculty who are discouraged from speaking critically about social issues because of the increasing assumption in American… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Young people, under the social contract, suggest a long term investment. What we have today is a government that believes that young… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
A discourse for broad-based political change is crucial for developing a politics that speaks to a future that can provide sustainable jobs,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Abandoned by the existing political system, young people in Oakland, California, New York City, Quebec and numerous other cities throughout the globe… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
To see poor people, their benefits being cut, to see pensions of Americans who have worked like my father, all their lives,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Under neoliberalism, you have a political-financial class that doesn't care about whether people are suffering. They float above politics. They have power… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Justified by the war on drugs, the United States is in the midst of a prison binge made obvious by the fact… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Any society's insistence on how it takes democracy seriously can, in fact, be measured by the way it treats its children. And… — 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
Young people refuse the notion that financialization defines the only acceptable definition of exchange, one that is based exclusively on the reductionist… — 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
When you look at the Koch brothers, who make three million dollars an hour on their dividends alone, you begin to get… — 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
