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
Ruling elite have think tanks, they have research institutes, they've invaded universities, they've monopolized the cultural apparatuses. — 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
I think neoliberalism is vulnerable to protest. And it's under protest because people are beginning to realize that these austerity policies are… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
If American society wants to invest in its young people, it has an obligation to provide them with an education in which… — 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
I think that what people have failed to talk about is white supremacy. — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Clearly, one does not have to give up being an academic, retreat from rigorous research, or renounce the importance of specialization in… — 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
We have never seen the isolation of the rich to the degree that we see it now. They're global. They travel all… — 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 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
Certainly I think the state is more than willing to not only attempt to change the consciousness of people, but to employ… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Capitalism, in my estimation, is not about democracy. I think we're beginning to see an understanding of this. We see it in… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think people now live in an age in which the only thing - they don't think about getting ahead. They think… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is an attempt to deskill teaches by removing matters of conception from implementation. Teachers are no longer asked to be creative,… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I also think that one of the things we often fail to realize is that that kind of violence is now legitimated… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We need to remember that education can be both a basis for critical thought and a site for repression, which destroys thinking… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
There is no genuine democracy without an informed public. While there are no guarantees that a critical education will prompt individuals to… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
FDR was enormously influenced by this, and afraid. I mean, his intervention was to save capitalism. It wasn't to basically appease the… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think in light of the other two registers that you mention, there's also that moment. I mean, to what degree do… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Edward Snowden's real "crime" is that he demonstrated how knowledge can be used to empower people, to get them to think as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
I think, at some level, we see young people all over the country mobilizing around different issues, in which they're doing something… — 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