As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
The future doesn't have to mimic the worst parts of the present. There are new ways of sharing information, and as long… — 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
It is hard to imagine, but in a Maryland school, a 13- year old girl was arrested for refusing to say the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Economics now drives politics. This gives us a system in which the relationship between power and politics is no longer fused. Power… — 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
Politicians such as Michelle Bachmann, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich along with talking heads such as Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck and Anne… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We need a new political language with broader narratives. Such a language has to unravel the pervasive ideological, pedagogical, and economic dynamics… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
It is precisely through the indeterminate nature of history that resistance becomes possible and politics refuses any guarantees and remains open. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What we are seeing in cities such as Chicago, Athens and other dead zones of capitalism throughout the world is the beginning… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
[Ruling elie] haven't given up on neoliberal ideology, they use it. And I think they've normalized that ideology, the notion that, for… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
People often say that Trump "speaks the truth," right? But I think what really is happening is he's become a symbol of… — 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
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 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
If the government were to invest that money in higher education and public services, these would be far better investments. But administrators… — 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
Public values are not only under attack in the United States and elsewhere but appear to have become irrelevant just as those… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Problems become privatized and removed from larger social issues. This is one task, connecting the personal problems to larger social issues that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If democracy is to once again inspire a populist politics, it is crucial to develop a number of social movements in which… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I don't think the media is a reflection of anything. The media is an active political and pedagogical force that shapes reality.… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted… — 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
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