Symptoms of ethical, political and economic impoverishment are all around us. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Increasingly fed by a moral and political hysteria, warlike values produce and endorse shared fears as the primary register of social relations. — 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
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
A citizen is a political and moral agent who in fact has a shared sense of hope and responsibility to others and… — 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
War provides jobs, profits, political payoffs, research funds, and forms of political and economic power that reach into every aspect of society. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Given that by age 23, almost a third of Americans are arrested for a crime, it becomes clear that in the new… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Within the existing neoliberal historical conjuncture, there is a merging of violence and governance and the systemic disinvestment in and breakdown of… — 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
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
State violence operating under the guise of personal safety and security, while parading as a bulwark of democracy, actually does the opposite… — 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
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
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 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
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
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
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
Progressive visions pale and are smashed next to the normalization of market-driven government policies that wipe out pensions, eliminate quality health care,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is a need for educators, young people, artists and other cultural workers to develop an educative politics in which people can… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What has become clear to many Americans is that the electoral system is bankrupt. As the political process becomes more privatized, outsourced,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What many commentators have missed in the ongoing attack on Edward Snowden is not that he uncovered information that made clear how… — 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
The rise of the punishing state and the governing-through-crime youth complex throughout American society suggests the need for a politics that not… — 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
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
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
What is invaluable about Angela Davis' work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations,… — 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
[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
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
Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of… — 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
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
I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these… — 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
Under the regime of neoliberalism, individual responsibility becomes the only politics that matters, and serves to blame those who are susceptible to… — 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