We increasingly live in societies based on the vocabulary of 'choice' and a denial of reality - a denial of massive inequality,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
That generation really has to fight for a new political language, social movements, and alliances with students from other countries. They have… — 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
But we need more than a broader understanding of what is a good society or a moral and political critique of the… — 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
Neoliberal violence produced in part through a massive shift in wealth to the upper 1%, growing inequality, the reign of the financial… — 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
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
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
What must be addressed in the most immediate sense is the threat that the emerging police state in the United States poses… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We also need to find a language capable of defending government as an element of the common good, one that does not… — 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
Collective insurance policies and social protections have given way to the forces of economic deregulation, the transformation of the welfare state into… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Under neoliberalism everyone has to negotiate their fate alone, bearing full responsibility for problems that are often not of their own doing.… — 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
Under the notion that unregulated market-driven values and relations should shape every domain of human life, the business model of governance has… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Against the tyranny of forgetting, educators, young people, social activists, public intellectuals, workers and others can work to make visible and oppose… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
With no adequate role to play as consumers, many youth are now considered disposable, forced to inhabit "zones of social abandonment" extending… — 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 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
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
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
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