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.

Making History in Dark Times: Refuse Numbness. Refuse Silence

The Myth of the Apolitical University: Education, Power and the Lie of Neutrality

Trump’s Crusade: Christian Nationalism and the Making of a Holy War

Disappearing Bodies: Epstein, ICE, and the Hidden Architecture of Gangster Capitalism

MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy

Domestic Terrorism in Plain Sight: White Supremacy, State Violence, and the Assault on Democracy

The Disconnected Present: Neoliberal Fascism and the Politics of Erasure

Goebbels’s Ghost and Miller’s Dream of a “Unified Reich.”

Higher Education in the Time of Fascist Plague

The Warning We Ignore at Our Peril: From El Salvador’s Dungeons to America’s Doorstep 

The Democrats: a Modern Day Version of Zombie Politics and the Walking Dead

Trump’s Politics of Defecation

Stephen Miller and the Making of the Fascist Subject

The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past

Trump’s Theater of Cruelty

The Democratic Party: Architects of Cowardice, Accomplices to Fascism

Domestic Terrorism and Spectacularized Violence in Trump’s Warfare State

The Silent Cries of Gaza: A Legacy of Innocence Lost and the Urgent Call to Confront Genocide

Resisting the Deadly Language of American Fascism

Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression

Against the Erasure Machine: Scholasticide, Memory and the Power of Pedagogy

Tears of Blood: Eugenics, Disposability, and the War on Children

The Politics of Cleansing

Democracy Disappeared

The Fire This Time

Abducting Bodies, Silencing Dissent: Mahmoud Khalil and the Rise of State Terror

The Urgency of Time and the Crisis of Conscience

Trump’s Reign of Cruelty

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