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.

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

Why Trumpism Will Live On

The Centrality of Critical Education in Dark Times: a Tribute to Noam Chomsky on his 92nd Birthday

Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and Resistance in Dark Times

Aligning Ignorance With Bigotry: Trump Attempts to Rewrite History

Lawlessness in Trump’s Fascist State: Bill Barr and the Ghost of Fascism

Racial Domestic Terrorism and the Legacy of State Violence

Criminogenic Politics as a Form of Psychosis in the Age of Trump

Radical Politics and Pandemic Nightmares

Cult-Like Ignorance is Death: Trump and the Coronavirus

Rethinking the Looming Threat of Neoliberal Fascism

Pedagogical Terrorism and Hope in the age of Fascist Politics

The Ghost of Fascism in the Post-Truth Era

Neoliberalism in the Age of Pedagogical Terrorism

Trump’s War on Children is an act of State Terrorism

Unfashionable Fascism: Mainstream Politicians Switching Sides Under Trump’s Regime of Barbarism

Education as a Weapon of Struggle: Rethinking the Parkland Uprising in the Age of Mass Violence

Donald Trump as the Bully-in Chief: Weaponizing the Politics of Humiliation

Toward a Politics of Ungovernability: Shutting Down American-Style Authoritarianism

The Hardening of Society and the Rise of Cultures of Cruelty in Neo-Fascist America

Trump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought

Democracy in Exile and the Curse of Totalitarianism

Militant Hope in the Age of the Politics of the Disconnect