Henry Giroux

Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and is the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. His most recent books include: The Terror of the Unforeseen (Los Angeles Review of books, 2019), On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd edition (Bloomsbury, 2020); Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in a Time of Crisis (Bloomsbury 2021); Pedagogy of Resistance: Against Manufactured Ignorance (Bloomsbury 2022) and Insurrections: Education in the Age of Counter-Revolutionary Politics (Bloomsbury, 2023), and coauthored with Anthony DiMaggio, Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2025). Giroux is also a member of Truthout’s board of directors.

Trump’s Theater of Cruelty

Bertrand Russell: Redefining the Public Intellectual in an Era of Rising Authoritarianism

Beyond the Illusion: The Dark Dream of a Totalitarian Empire

Rethinking Paulo Freire and Postcolonialism in the Age of Disposability

Resisting Youth in the Age of Fascist Dream-Worlds

America’s Descent Into Fascism Can Be Stopped

Universities in Dark Times: Beyond the Plague of Neoliberal Fascism

Trump, The Purge, Black Nazis and the Language of Apocalyptic Lies and Violence

Paulo Freire’s Legacy and the Necessity of Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times

Rethinking 9/11: Fascism, Memory, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

Scholasticide: Erasing Memory, Silencing Dissent, and Waging War on Education from Gaza to the West

Welcome to the Mass Psychology of Violence American Style

Childcide in the Age of Fascist Theocracies

The Dismantling of Democracy: A Grim Projection of American Fascism Under Trump

Firewalls of Ignorance and Disappearance: Corporate Media in the Age of Fascist Politics

Welcome to the Hedge-Fund Driven Neoliberal University

Poisoning the American Mind: Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyism

Everyday Fascism: Brecht’s Warning about The Serpent’s Egg

Genocide and the Politics of False Equivalencies

The Politics of Emergency Time and the Emerging Threat of Fascism

Killing Children, the Burdens of Conscience, and the Israel-Hamas War

Educators as Public Intellectuals in an Age of Tyranny: Confront, Fight Back and Organize

Memory Work and the Making of White Working-Class and Racial Identities

Youth and Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability

Ron DeSantis and the Politics of Ugly Freedoms

Critical Pedagogy in the Age of Fascist Politics

Gangster Capitalism and the Politics of Fascist Education

Public Education as a Domestic Machinery of Indoctrination and Disposability in the Age of Fascist Politics

Fascist Politics in the Age of Neoliberal Capitalism: Confronting the Domestication of the Unimaginable

Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom

DeSantis’s Educational Policies Come Right Out of the Fascist Playbook

Bad Faith Liberalism and the Politics of False Equivalency

Neoliberal Fascism, Cruel Violence, and the Politics of Disposability

Against the Corporate University: Speech to Striking Students at McMaster

The Nazification of American Society and the Scourge of Violence

The Scourge of Fascist Politics and the Rise of White Nationalism from Orbán to DeSantis

The Nazification of American Education

Targeting Children: Killing Fields in the Age of Mass Shootings

The War on Youth in the Age of Fascist Politics

The Politics of Ethicide in an Age of Counter-Revolution

Right-Wing Authoritarianism and the Crisis of Education

The Consolation of Words

Remembering Paulo Freire as a Freedom Fighter

For Stanley Aronowitz

Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence

Resistance is Not Futile: Fighting Back in an Age of Manufactured Ignorance

America’s Nazi Problem and the End of Policing

Against Apartheid Pedagogy in the Age of White Supremacy

The Plague of Historical Amnesia in the Age of Fascist Politics

America Radiates Violence: Challenging the Politics of Isolated Incidents