I mean, think of Flint. I mean, think of the lead poisoning of thousands of poor and black children across the United… — 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
In the United States the state monopoly on the use of violence has intensified since the 1980s, and in the process, has… — 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
The environment in Canada is much more conducive to doing critical work, though Canada has its own set of problems, but nothing… — 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 just the young protesters occupying a number of American cities, but also the threat it poses to democracy itself. This threat is being exacerbated as a result of the merging of a war-like mentality and neoliberal… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
Within the United States especially, the often violent response to nonviolent forms of youth protests must be analyzed within the framework of… — 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
We no longer have the public spheres available to be able to contest that violence. We don't see it in the mainstream… — 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
The United States has become addicted to violence, and this dependency is fueled increasingly by its willingness to wage war at home… — 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
The challenges that young people are mobilizing against oppressive societies all over the globe are being met with a state-sponsored violence that… — 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
We're talking about race. It's ideology, it's a mode of policy. It's a practice. And it intertwines with class in a very… — 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 just the young protesters occupying a number of American cities, but also the threat it poses to democracy itself. This threat is being exacerbated as a result of the merging of a war-like mentality and neoliberal… — Henry Giroux Copy Share
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