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Henry Giroux
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In America’s theatre of the undead, fascism advances under the glow of gangster capitalism while the Democratic Party stands paralyzed, mistaking cowardice for compromise. www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...
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November 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Given the enormous threats to education being waged by tyrants all across the globe, I wanted to post this video which argues against the idiotic claim that education is not political, which really is the bedrock for a pedagogy of repression.
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Henry Giroux: “All education is a struggle over what kind of future you want for young people"
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November 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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A reminder to join this talk on education and the practice of freedom by the famed economist Richard Wolff this Thursday at McMaster University
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To Challenge our Education System is to Practice Freedom – Faculty of Humanities | McMaster University
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November 10, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The renown economist and public intellectual Richard Wolff will be giving a lecture on my Public Intellectual project on November 13, 2025 at 7:00pm.
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To Challenge our Education System is to Practice Freedom with Richard D. Wolff
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November 5, 2025 at 6:18 PM
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My article on Trump's Politics of Defecation:
When protest is met not with words but with feces raining from the sky,what you’re seeing is less spectacle than the grammar of authoritarianism.
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Trump’s Politics of Defecation
Recently, Donald Trump shared a video known as the “Flying King”-- an AI-generated spectacle in which he pilots a fighter plane emblazoned with the words “King Trump,” raining brown sludge, representi...
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October 29, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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My in-depth conversation with Joy LaClaire on the gathering storms unleashed by the Trump administration, attacks on truth, justice, and democracy. Our exchange captures both the peril and the possibility of resistance.
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Henry Giroux and Nate Bellinger
Today’s show is in two parts. First, longtime friend of Forthright Radio, scholar, public intellectual, McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest, and The Paulo Freire Distin…
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October 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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My latest article on “When Law Becomes Crime,”-- at the center of authoritarianism lies a machinery of state violence: abductions, the erosion of due process, and the weaponization of government to punish critics and institutions deemed enemies of the people.

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October 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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An extended version of my article on Stephen Miller and the making of the fascist subject. www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...
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October 21, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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My article on Stephen Miller and the making of the fascist subject. Miller is a driving force behind most of the egregious, terrifying, and morally bankrupt policies driving Trump's authoritarianism.-Please share:

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Stephen Miller and the Making of the Fascist Subject
Orchestrated brutality reflected not only Miller’s ideology but also his personality. Even his former colleagues described him as insufferable, “rude, arrogant, and consumed by a sense of his own supe...
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October 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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My piece on Trump's America Echoes a Fascist Past.
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Trump’s America: Echoes of a Fascist Past
“Historically, the most terrible things war, genocide, and slavery have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” — Howard Zinn The irony is unbearable. US President Donald Trump has satura...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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My Interview with TV Metro Canada on cultural fascism and youth resistance-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q0scfzHMyg
October 7, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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My article in Policy an Futures on "Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression"

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Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression | Development Education Review
The war at home – state terrorism on full displayAcross the globe, we are living in a moment of profound crisis where the very essence of education as a democratic institution is under attack (Giroux ...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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“Gangster capitalism & nostalgic authoritarianism in Trump’s America”: Henry Giroux via Salon
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"Gangster capitalism & nostalgic authoritarianism in Trump’s America": Henry Giroux via Salon - Monthly Review
Henry A. Giroux, founding figure in the movement for critical pedagogy and author of more than sixty books, including America’s Addiction to Terrorism and America’s Education Deficit and the War on Yo...
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October 6, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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On Culture and the Crisis of Capitalism
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Economic Update: Capitalism and Culture, Their Connection in Crisis Now
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October 1, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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The Road to the Camps in Trump's America" exposes how the symbols, policies, and strategies that defined fascist regimes are re-emerging today under Trump, not as distant memories, but as urgent warnings written into the fabric of the political moment. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/t...
The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past
The irony is unbearable. Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption and violence the grammar of governance. He pledges ...
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September 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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My latest article which traces how echoes of past fascist strategies are resurfacing today in alarming ways: ‘The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past’. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/t...
The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past
The irony is unbearable. Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption and violence the grammar of governance. He pledges ...
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September 26, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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My interview with Allen Ruff on living on the raw edge of democracy--draws heavily on my article The Road to the Camps which will be published by CounterPunch tomorrow 9-26-25
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We’re Living on the Raw Edge of Violence - WORT-FM 89.9
Henry Giroux reflects on the state of US politics, the reality of neoliberal fascism, the weakness of legacy media, and how to find hope.
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September 25, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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My article co-authored with Will Paul on Pedagogies of Repression: Ford, Trump and the War on Education
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Pedagogies of Repression
Analyses of fascism too often fixate on its most spectacular expressions: staggering inequality, systemic racism, the militarization of daily life, unbridled corruption, monopolistic control of the me...
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September 14, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Trump’s Theater of Cruelty - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/12/t...
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September 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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My article on Charlie Kirk’s Death as s a Symptom of a National Political Culture in Crisis-one that is barely mentioned
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Charlie Kirk’s Death Is a Symptom of a National Political Culture in Crisis
What we are witnessing is not an isolated act but the manifestation of a wider rot.
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September 12, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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My article on Trump's Theater of cruelty, which is about to get worse given his declaration of war education, the truth, and on what he calls the left--which amounts to any individual, group, or institution that rejects his war on democracy. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/12/t...
Trump’s Theater of Cruelty
Trump’s obsession with violence is more than a grotesque fixation on power and cruelty; it is a commentary on politics as pathology, a grim theater in which authoritarianism reveals its inner logic. W...
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September 12, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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I am reprinting an older article of mine on 9/11. On this anniversary of 9/11, it is important not only to remember the horror of that day and the nearly 3,000 lives lost, but also to confront the devastating aftermath of the so-called war on terror.
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Counter-Memory and the Politics of Loss After 9/11
To address our collapsing intellectual and moral visions, we must reclaim and re-imagine those moments of compassion, social relations and democratic ideals that surfaced briefly after 9/11.
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September 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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The Democratic Party: Architects of Cowardice, Accomplices to Fascism
The Democratic Party has forfeited every claim to moral and political credibility. It is not a bulwark against fascism but an accomplice to it, a party of
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September 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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My article on Trump’s Theater of Cruelty: Fascism’s Malignant Return. What he offers is not governance but the intoxication of destruction, the fetishization of cruelty, and the performance of violence as ritual.
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Trump’s Theater of Cruelty: Fascism’s Malignant Return
What he offers is not governance but the intoxication of destruction, the fetishization of cruelty, and the performance of violence as ritual.
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September 8, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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My op-ed on The war on memory: Trump, the Smithsonian and Canada’s book bans--The death of memory is never accidental. It is a project, carefully cultivated by authoritarian regimes intent on erasing the past to control the present. www.laprogressive.com/democracy/tr...
Trump’s Cultural Erasure Threatens Democracy in the U.S. and Canada
From book bans to attacks on the Smithsonian, authoritarian movements are rewriting history to dismantle democracy—but memory itself can be a powerful form of resistance.
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September 7, 2025 at 8:21 PM