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Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and dis the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. His most recent books are America's Addiction to Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, 2016), and America at War with Itself (City Lights, 2017). He is also a contributing editor to a number of journals, includingTikkun, the Journal of Wild Culture, and Ragazine. Giroux is also a member of Truthout's Board of Directors. His web site iswww.henryagiroux.com.
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Saturday, September 24, 2016
America At War With Itself: The Sandstorm This is an excerpt from Henry Giroux's book, America At War With Itself, from the introduction. In its earlier forms, the language of authoritarianism relied upon the discourse of command and courted mass hysteria, one that produced totalizing world views, punished dissent, disseminated hate-filled propaganda steeped in the vocabulary of ultra-nationalism and racial purity, and emptied language of any substance
Saturday, September 24, 2016America At War With Itself: The Sandstorm This is an excerpt from Henry Giroux's book, America At War With Itself, from the introduction. In its earlier forms, the language of authoritarianism relied upon the discourse of command and courted mass hysteria, one that produced totalizing world views, punished dissent, disseminated hate-filled propaganda steeped in the vocabulary of ultra-nationalism and racial purity, and emptied language of any substance
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Friday, August 21, 2015
The Plague of American Authoritarianism In the United States an emerging totalitarianism has appeared in a form different from what we have seen in the past. Instead of a charismatic leader, the government is now governed through the anonymous and largely remote hands of corporate power and finance capital. The more money influences politics, the more corrupt the political culture becomes.
Friday, August 21, 2015The Plague of American Authoritarianism In the United States an emerging totalitarianism has appeared in a form different from what we have seen in the past. Instead of a charismatic leader, the government is now governed through the anonymous and largely remote hands of corporate power and finance capital. The more money influences politics, the more corrupt the political culture becomes.
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Tuesday, October 31, 2017
Donald Trump as the Bully-in Chief: Weaponizing the politics of Humiliation Under President Trump, the plague of mid-20th century authoritarianism has returned not only in the menacing spectacle of populist rallies, fear-mongering, unchecked bigotry, and humiliation, but also in an emboldened culture of war, militarization, and extreme violence that looms over society like a rising storm.
Tuesday, October 31, 2017Donald Trump as the Bully-in Chief: Weaponizing the politics of Humiliation Under President Trump, the plague of mid-20th century authoritarianism has returned not only in the menacing spectacle of populist rallies, fear-mongering, unchecked bigotry, and humiliation, but also in an emboldened culture of war, militarization, and extreme violence that looms over society like a rising storm.
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Friday, September 30, 2016
Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance What happens to a society when thinking is eviscerated and is disdained in favor of raw emotion? [1] What happens when political discourse functions as a bunker rather than a bridge? What happens when the spheres of morality and spirituality give way to the naked instrumentalism of a savage market rationality?
Friday, September 30, 2016Thinking Dangerously in the Age of Normalized Ignorance What happens to a society when thinking is eviscerated and is disdained in favor of raw emotion? [1] What happens when political discourse functions as a bunker rather than a bridge? What happens when the spheres of morality and spirituality give way to the naked instrumentalism of a savage market rationality?
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Friday, November 6, 2015
Beyond Dystopian Visions in the Age of Neoliberal Authoritarianism Casino capitalism has created a predatory class of unethical zombies who are producing dead zones of the imagination that even Orwell could not have envisioned.
Friday, November 6, 2015Beyond Dystopian Visions in the Age of Neoliberal Authoritarianism Casino capitalism has created a predatory class of unethical zombies who are producing dead zones of the imagination that even Orwell could not have envisioned.
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Friday, August 12, 2016
Assassination Talk, the Banality of Evil, and the Paranoid State of American Politics Trump's rhetoric, along with the discourse of other extremists, echoes Hannah Arendt's insight that totalitarianism is produced, in part, by making human beings superfluous, ignoring their voices, and silencing them in fascistic discourses of certainty, absolutes, and unaccountability that allow no space for critical thinking, informed judgment, and critical agency.
Friday, August 12, 2016Assassination Talk, the Banality of Evil, and the Paranoid State of American Politics Trump's rhetoric, along with the discourse of other extremists, echoes Hannah Arendt's insight that totalitarianism is produced, in part, by making human beings superfluous, ignoring their voices, and silencing them in fascistic discourses of certainty, absolutes, and unaccountability that allow no space for critical thinking, informed judgment, and critical agency.
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Saturday, April 22, 2017
Shutting Down American-Style Authoritarianism The horrors unfolding under the Trump administration are abetted by liberals who still believe that capitalism and democracy are synonymous.
Saturday, April 22, 2017Shutting Down American-Style Authoritarianism The horrors unfolding under the Trump administration are abetted by liberals who still believe that capitalism and democracy are synonymous.
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Wednesday, March 22, 2017
The Culture of Cruelty in Trump's America Trump's culture of cruelty views violence as a sacred means for addressing social problems and organizing society.
Wednesday, March 22, 2017The Culture of Cruelty in Trump's America Trump's culture of cruelty views violence as a sacred means for addressing social problems and organizing society.
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Friday, March 17, 2017
The Hardening of Society and the Rise of Cultures of Cruelty in Neo-Fascist America There is more at work here than getting rid of Trump, there is a need to eliminate a system in which democracy is equated with capitalism, a system driven almost exclusively by financial interests, and beholden to two political parties that are hard-wired into neoliberal savagery.
Friday, March 17, 2017The Hardening of Society and the Rise of Cultures of Cruelty in Neo-Fascist America There is more at work here than getting rid of Trump, there is a need to eliminate a system in which democracy is equated with capitalism, a system driven almost exclusively by financial interests, and beholden to two political parties that are hard-wired into neoliberal savagery.
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Sunday, November 25, 2018
Trump's fascist efforts to demolish democracy Donald Trump's relentless nods to fascism in his rhetoric requires us to form a language of resistance, rooted in compassion for others, justice and the confrontation of the forces of tyranny.
Sunday, November 25, 2018Trump's fascist efforts to demolish democracy Donald Trump's relentless nods to fascism in his rhetoric requires us to form a language of resistance, rooted in compassion for others, justice and the confrontation of the forces of tyranny.
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Monday, November 2, 2015
Terrorizing School Children in the American Police State Violence functions as a brutalizing practice used by the state to squelch dissent, incarcerate poor minorities of class and color, terrorize immigrants, wage a war on minority youth, and menace individuals and groups considered disposable or a threat. It also accelerates abusive forms of punitiveness and control that extend from the prisons to other institutions such as schools.
Monday, November 2, 2015Terrorizing School Children in the American Police State Violence functions as a brutalizing practice used by the state to squelch dissent, incarcerate poor minorities of class and color, terrorize immigrants, wage a war on minority youth, and menace individuals and groups considered disposable or a threat. It also accelerates abusive forms of punitiveness and control that extend from the prisons to other institutions such as schools.
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Saturday, October 13, 2018
Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh and the path to neoliberal fascism Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation is not an isolated event, and in the current historical moment has dark meaning
Saturday, October 13, 2018Donald Trump, Brett Kavanaugh and the path to neoliberal fascism Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation is not an isolated event, and in the current historical moment has dark meaning
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Sunday, July 26, 2015
America's New Brutalism: the Death of Sandra Bland Bland's death over a routine traffic stop is beyond monstrous. It is indicative of a country in which lawlessness is now integral to the police state, and extreme violence is the new norm for a society fed by the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, the incarceration state, the drug wars, and the increasing militarization of everything, including the war on black youth.
Sunday, July 26, 2015America's New Brutalism: the Death of Sandra Bland Bland's death over a routine traffic stop is beyond monstrous. It is indicative of a country in which lawlessness is now integral to the police state, and extreme violence is the new norm for a society fed by the legacy of slavery, Jim Crow, the incarceration state, the drug wars, and the increasing militarization of everything, including the war on black youth.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Criminogenic Politics as a Form of Psychosis in the Age of Trump In its late stages, capitalism morphs into a form of neoliberal fascism. One consequence is not merely a criminogenic political and economic system, but a state of barbarism that reflects a death-dealing psychosis among political leaders such as Trump and Bolsonaro.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020Criminogenic Politics as a Form of Psychosis in the Age of Trump In its late stages, capitalism morphs into a form of neoliberal fascism. One consequence is not merely a criminogenic political and economic system, but a state of barbarism that reflects a death-dealing psychosis among political leaders such as Trump and Bolsonaro.
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Friday, November 11, 2016
A Call for Resistance in Dark Times The lights are going out and the time to wake up from this nightmare is today. Forget depression, look ahead, get energized, read, build alternative public spheres, become guerrilla fighters. There are no guarantees in politics, but there is no politics that matters without hope, that is, educated hope.
Friday, November 11, 2016A Call for Resistance in Dark Times The lights are going out and the time to wake up from this nightmare is today. Forget depression, look ahead, get energized, read, build alternative public spheres, become guerrilla fighters. There are no guarantees in politics, but there is no politics that matters without hope, that is, educated hope.
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Saturday, May 18, 2019
Against the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Donald Trump: Part 1 of 2 Our culture of ignorance has made possible the rise of a terrible new political blend: Neoliberal fascism
Saturday, May 18, 2019Against the dictatorship of ignorance in the age of Donald Trump: Part 1 of 2 Our culture of ignorance has made possible the rise of a terrible new political blend: Neoliberal fascism
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Friday, September 27, 2019
Neoliberalism Paved the Way for Authoritarian Right-Wing Populism Neoliberalism's ruling elite eschews real democracy, seeing it as the enemy of markets.
Friday, September 27, 2019Neoliberalism Paved the Way for Authoritarian Right-Wing Populism Neoliberalism's ruling elite eschews real democracy, seeing it as the enemy of markets.
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Monday, March 26, 2018
Education as a Weapon of Struggle: Rethinking the Parkland Uprising in the Age of Mass Violence Under the influence of corporate power and a growing authoritarianism in the United States, education in multiple informal and formal platforms operates increasingly in the service of lies, racism, unadulterated market values, and a full-fledged assault on critical consciousness and public values. Under such circumstances, democracy is cast as the enemy of freedom.
Monday, March 26, 2018Education as a Weapon of Struggle: Rethinking the Parkland Uprising in the Age of Mass Violence Under the influence of corporate power and a growing authoritarianism in the United States, education in multiple informal and formal platforms operates increasingly in the service of lies, racism, unadulterated market values, and a full-fledged assault on critical consciousness and public values. Under such circumstances, democracy is cast as the enemy of freedom.
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Wednesday, November 8, 2017
Democracy on Life Support: Donald Trump's First Year in Office Under Trump, the plague of mid-20th century authoritarianism and apocalyptic populism have returned in a unique American form. A year later, people in Asia and the rest of the world are watching, pondering how such a dreadful event and retreat from democracy could have taken place. How could a liberal society give up its ideals so quickly?
Wednesday, November 8, 2017Democracy on Life Support: Donald Trump's First Year in Office Under Trump, the plague of mid-20th century authoritarianism and apocalyptic populism have returned in a unique American form. A year later, people in Asia and the rest of the world are watching, pondering how such a dreadful event and retreat from democracy could have taken place. How could a liberal society give up its ideals so quickly?
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Friday, June 26, 2020
Lawlessness in Trump's Fascist State: Bill Barr and the Ghost of Fascism Barr places the President above the law, defining him as a kind of unitary sovereign. In addition, he appears to relish in his role as a craven defender of Trump, all the while justifying a notion of blind executive authority in the face of Trump's endless lies, racist policies, and lawlessness,
Friday, June 26, 2020Lawlessness in Trump's Fascist State: Bill Barr and the Ghost of Fascism Barr places the President above the law, defining him as a kind of unitary sovereign. In addition, he appears to relish in his role as a craven defender of Trump, all the while justifying a notion of blind executive authority in the face of Trump's endless lies, racist policies, and lawlessness,
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Saturday, December 7, 2019
We Must Overcome Our Atomization to Beat Back Neoliberal Fascism Movements in Chile, Colombia and Ecuador have gained momentum by resisting the isolation imposed by neoliberalism.
Saturday, December 7, 2019We Must Overcome Our Atomization to Beat Back Neoliberal Fascism Movements in Chile, Colombia and Ecuador have gained momentum by resisting the isolation imposed by neoliberalism.
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Wednesday, April 22, 2015
The War on Terrorism Targets Democracy Itself George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian society casts a dark shadow over the United States. The consequences can be seen clearly in the ongoing and ruthless assault on the social state, workers, unions, higher education, students, poor people of color and any vestige of the social contract. Free market policies, values & practices now shape practically every commanding political and economic institution in the US
Wednesday, April 22, 2015The War on Terrorism Targets Democracy Itself George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian society casts a dark shadow over the United States. The consequences can be seen clearly in the ongoing and ruthless assault on the social state, workers, unions, higher education, students, poor people of color and any vestige of the social contract. Free market policies, values & practices now shape practically every commanding political and economic institution in the US
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Friday, May 1, 2015
Domestic Terrorism, Youth and the Politics of Disposability a dark cloud of political and ethical ignorance has descended on the United States. (1) Thoughtlessness has become something that now occupies a privileged, if not celebrated, place in the political landscape and the mainstream cultural apparatuses. A new kind of infantilism now shapes daily life as adults gleefully take on the role of unthinking children and children are taught to be adults, stripped of their innocence...
Friday, May 1, 2015Domestic Terrorism, Youth and the Politics of Disposability a dark cloud of political and ethical ignorance has descended on the United States. (1) Thoughtlessness has become something that now occupies a privileged, if not celebrated, place in the political landscape and the mainstream cultural apparatuses. A new kind of infantilism now shapes daily life as adults gleefully take on the role of unthinking children and children are taught to be adults, stripped of their innocence...
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Saturday, February 29, 2020
Cult-Like Ignorance is Death: Trump and the Coronavirus Trump and his merry band of incompetent lackeys are symbols of a necropolitics that is wedded to destruction, violence, greed, falsehoods, and the needs of capital. Terminal idiocy, cult like absolutism, bottomless ignorance, and unbridled arrogance and narcissism have given rise to a form of neoliberal fascism and a culture of cruelty unlike anything we have seen since the 1930s.
Saturday, February 29, 2020Cult-Like Ignorance is Death: Trump and the Coronavirus Trump and his merry band of incompetent lackeys are symbols of a necropolitics that is wedded to destruction, violence, greed, falsehoods, and the needs of capital. Terminal idiocy, cult like absolutism, bottomless ignorance, and unbridled arrogance and narcissism have given rise to a form of neoliberal fascism and a culture of cruelty unlike anything we have seen since the 1930s.
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Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Why the Democratic Party Can't Save Us From Trump's Authoritarianism For too many members of the Democratic Party, Trump is the eccentric clown who unexpectedly stepped into history by finding the right note in rousing an army of "deplorables" willing to invest in his toxic script of hatred, demonization and exclusion. When democracy is threatened and life on the planet itself so imperiled, collective action is the only way out of illiberal democracy. It is time to go for broke.
Tuesday, August 22, 2017Why the Democratic Party Can't Save Us From Trump's Authoritarianism For too many members of the Democratic Party, Trump is the eccentric clown who unexpectedly stepped into history by finding the right note in rousing an army of "deplorables" willing to invest in his toxic script of hatred, demonization and exclusion. When democracy is threatened and life on the planet itself so imperiled, collective action is the only way out of illiberal democracy. It is time to go for broke.
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Saturday, July 8, 2017
Can a New American Revolution Break Our Nation's Culture of Cruelty? The right's politics are as vicious as ever, but they also present a unique opportunity. The health care reform bills proposed by Republicans in the House and Senate have generated heated discussions across a vast ideological and political spectrum. On the right, senators such as Rand Paul and Ted Cruz have endorsed a new level of cruelty -- one that has a long history among the radical right
Saturday, July 8, 2017Can a New American Revolution Break Our Nation's Culture of Cruelty? The right's politics are as vicious as ever, but they also present a unique opportunity. The health care reform bills proposed by Republicans in the House and Senate have generated heated discussions across a vast ideological and political spectrum. On the right, senators such as Rand Paul and Ted Cruz have endorsed a new level of cruelty -- one that has a long history among the radical right
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Thursday, September 21, 2017
Donald Trump's Addiction to Violence The president has normalized violence by emboldening the idea that it is the only viable political response to social problems.
Thursday, September 21, 2017Donald Trump's Addiction to Violence The president has normalized violence by emboldening the idea that it is the only viable political response to social problems.
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Thursday, February 15, 2018
The Ghost of Fascism in the Age of Trump What we are witnessing is a closing of the political and a full-scale attack on moral outrage, thoughtful reasoning, collective resistance and radical imagination. Trump has normalized the unthinkable, legitimated the inexcusable and defended the indefensible.
Thursday, February 15, 2018The Ghost of Fascism in the Age of Trump What we are witnessing is a closing of the political and a full-scale attack on moral outrage, thoughtful reasoning, collective resistance and radical imagination. Trump has normalized the unthinkable, legitimated the inexcusable and defended the indefensible.
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Thursday, July 29, 2021
The Right Wing Wants Misinformation and Manufactured Ignorance, Not Democracy Ignorance now thrives in a world of interlacing disasters. This age of consuming catastrophes is part of an age of survival-of-the fittest economics fueled by the rise of right-wing hate, authoritarianism and political extremists.
Thursday, July 29, 2021The Right Wing Wants Misinformation and Manufactured Ignorance, Not Democracy Ignorance now thrives in a world of interlacing disasters. This age of consuming catastrophes is part of an age of survival-of-the fittest economics fueled by the rise of right-wing hate, authoritarianism and political extremists.
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Sunday, October 27, 2019
Rethinking the Looming Threat of Neoliberal Fascism In the face of the emerging tyranny and fascist politics that are spreading across the globe, it is time to merge a sense of moral outrage with a sense of civic courage and collective action. It is time to combine reason and hope, and to acknowledge that the problems we face are too urgent to be giving up on the promises of a radical democracy.
Sunday, October 27, 2019Rethinking the Looming Threat of Neoliberal Fascism In the face of the emerging tyranny and fascist politics that are spreading across the globe, it is time to merge a sense of moral outrage with a sense of civic courage and collective action. It is time to combine reason and hope, and to acknowledge that the problems we face are too urgent to be giving up on the promises of a radical democracy.
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Saturday, August 12, 2017
Trump and the Politics of Nihilism Ignorance is a terrible wound when it is self-inflicted, but it becomes a dangerous plague when the active refusal to know combines with power. President Trump's lies, lack of credibility, woefully deficient knowledge of the world, and unbridled narcissism have suggested for some time that he lacks the intelligence, judgment and capacity for critical thought necessary to occupy the presidency of the United States.
Saturday, August 12, 2017Trump and the Politics of Nihilism Ignorance is a terrible wound when it is self-inflicted, but it becomes a dangerous plague when the active refusal to know combines with power. President Trump's lies, lack of credibility, woefully deficient knowledge of the world, and unbridled narcissism have suggested for some time that he lacks the intelligence, judgment and capacity for critical thought necessary to occupy the presidency of the United States.
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Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Rethinking Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World in Trump's America Huxley shared Orwell's concern about repression as a political tool of the elite, enforced through surveillance and the banning of books, dissent, and critical thought itself. But Huxley believed that social control and the propagation of ignorance would be introduced by those in power through the political tools of pleasure, mass entertainment, and a politics of distraction.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017Rethinking Orwell's 1984 and Huxley's Brave New World in Trump's America Huxley shared Orwell's concern about repression as a political tool of the elite, enforced through surveillance and the banning of books, dissent, and critical thought itself. But Huxley believed that social control and the propagation of ignorance would be introduced by those in power through the political tools of pleasure, mass entertainment, and a politics of distraction.
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Saturday, December 10, 2016
Trump's Second Gilded Age: Overcoming the Rule of Billionaires and Militarists It is hard to believe that this gaggle of religious fundamentalists, conspiracy theory advocates, billionaires, and retrograde anti-communists, who uniformly lack the experience to take on the jobs for which they were nominated, could possibly be viewed as reasonable candidates for top government positions. Most of Trump's appointees to top cabinet positions are a mix of incompetent and mean spirited billionaires and generals.
Saturday, December 10, 2016Trump's Second Gilded Age: Overcoming the Rule of Billionaires and Militarists It is hard to believe that this gaggle of religious fundamentalists, conspiracy theory advocates, billionaires, and retrograde anti-communists, who uniformly lack the experience to take on the jobs for which they were nominated, could possibly be viewed as reasonable candidates for top government positions. Most of Trump's appointees to top cabinet positions are a mix of incompetent and mean spirited billionaires and generals.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2018
Donald Trump's Fascist Politics and the Language of Disappearance Trump's love affair with some of the world's most heinous dictators and his hatred of democracy echoes a period in history when the unimaginable became possible, when genocide was the endpoint of dehumanizing others, and the mix of nativist and nationalist rhetoric ended in the horrors of the death camp.The menacing abyss of fascism is now at our doorstep.
Tuesday, November 20, 2018Donald Trump's Fascist Politics and the Language of Disappearance Trump's love affair with some of the world's most heinous dictators and his hatred of democracy echoes a period in history when the unimaginable became possible, when genocide was the endpoint of dehumanizing others, and the mix of nativist and nationalist rhetoric ended in the horrors of the death camp.The menacing abyss of fascism is now at our doorstep.
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Sunday, October 15, 2017
Rethinking Higher Education in a Time of Tyranny One of Martin Luther King's great insights was his recognition that education provided a bulwark against both ignorance and indifference in the face of injustice. Like Gandhi, he warned people over and over again not to remain silent in the face of racism, militarism and extreme materialism, and argued that "he who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
Sunday, October 15, 2017Rethinking Higher Education in a Time of Tyranny One of Martin Luther King's great insights was his recognition that education provided a bulwark against both ignorance and indifference in the face of injustice. Like Gandhi, he warned people over and over again not to remain silent in the face of racism, militarism and extreme materialism, and argued that "he who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Challenging Trump's Language of Fascism Trump is not only a serial liar, but he also displays a deep contempt for critical thinking and has boasted about how he loves the uneducated. Not only have mainstream sources such as The Washington Post and The New York Times published endless examples of Trump's lies, they have noted that even in the aftermath of such exposure, he continues to be completely indifferent to being exposed as a serial liar.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018Challenging Trump's Language of Fascism Trump is not only a serial liar, but he also displays a deep contempt for critical thinking and has boasted about how he loves the uneducated. Not only have mainstream sources such as The Washington Post and The New York Times published endless examples of Trump's lies, they have noted that even in the aftermath of such exposure, he continues to be completely indifferent to being exposed as a serial liar.
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Friday, November 3, 2017
Disposability in the Age of Disasters: From Dreamers and Puerto Rico to Violence in Las Vegas Under Trump, a politics of disposability has merged with an ascendant authoritarianism in the United States in which the government's response to such disparate issues as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) crisis, the devastation of Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria and the mass shooting in Las Vegas are met uniformly with state-sanctioned and state-promoted violence.
Friday, November 3, 2017Disposability in the Age of Disasters: From Dreamers and Puerto Rico to Violence in Las Vegas Under Trump, a politics of disposability has merged with an ascendant authoritarianism in the United States in which the government's response to such disparate issues as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) crisis, the devastation of Puerto Rico by Hurricane Maria and the mass shooting in Las Vegas are met uniformly with state-sanctioned and state-promoted violence.
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Saturday, December 12, 2020
The Centrality of Critical Education in Dark Times: a Tribute to Noam Chomsky on his 92nd Birthday Chomsky has made clear that intellectuals, artists, educators, and other cultural workers have a responsibility to use education to address grave social problems such as the threat of nuclear war, ecological devastation, and the sharp deterioration of democracy.
Saturday, December 12, 2020The Centrality of Critical Education in Dark Times: a Tribute to Noam Chomsky on his 92nd Birthday Chomsky has made clear that intellectuals, artists, educators, and other cultural workers have a responsibility to use education to address grave social problems such as the threat of nuclear war, ecological devastation, and the sharp deterioration of democracy.
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Friday, October 6, 2017
Donald Trump's passion for cruelty What's different about Trump is that he revels in the use of violence and war-mongering brutality to inflict humiliation and pain on people. He pulls the curtains away from a systemic culture of cruelty and a racially inflected mass- incarceration state. He publicly celebrates his own sadistic investment in violence as a source of pleasure.
Friday, October 6, 2017Donald Trump's passion for cruelty What's different about Trump is that he revels in the use of violence and war-mongering brutality to inflict humiliation and pain on people. He pulls the curtains away from a systemic culture of cruelty and a racially inflected mass- incarceration state. He publicly celebrates his own sadistic investment in violence as a source of pleasure.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2020
The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism The financial crisis of 2008 made visible the plague of neoliberalism that has for over 40 years ravaged the public good and imposed misery and suffering upon the poor and others considered excess, waste or dangerous.
Tuesday, April 7, 2020The COVID-19 Pandemic Is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism The financial crisis of 2008 made visible the plague of neoliberalism that has for over 40 years ravaged the public good and imposed misery and suffering upon the poor and others considered excess, waste or dangerous.
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Sunday, July 15, 2018
Reading Against Fascism Something sinister and horrifying is happening to liberal democracies all over the globe. The global architecture of democracy is giving way to authoritarian tyrannies. As alarming as the signs may be, we cannot look away and allow the terrors of the unforeseen to be given free rein. We cannot allow the power of dreams to turn into nightmares.
Sunday, July 15, 2018Reading Against Fascism Something sinister and horrifying is happening to liberal democracies all over the globe. The global architecture of democracy is giving way to authoritarian tyrannies. As alarming as the signs may be, we cannot look away and allow the terrors of the unforeseen to be given free rein. We cannot allow the power of dreams to turn into nightmares.
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Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Populism Is Not the Answer to Neoliberal Fascism Populism on both the right and left narrows the scope of power to the role of leaders, not the people.
Tuesday, September 10, 2019Populism Is Not the Answer to Neoliberal Fascism Populism on both the right and left narrows the scope of power to the role of leaders, not the people.
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Monday, January 20, 2020
The Battle to Impeach Trump Is Part of a Global Struggle for Democracy Trump's impeachment battle is part of the wider historical and global struggle taking place over democracy. In different ways, both parties have hollowed out democratic institutions and cozied up to dictators.
Monday, January 20, 2020The Battle to Impeach Trump Is Part of a Global Struggle for Democracy Trump's impeachment battle is part of the wider historical and global struggle taking place over democracy. In different ways, both parties have hollowed out democratic institutions and cozied up to dictators.
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Monday, December 19, 2016
White Nationalism in the Oval Office and the Suppression of Dissent There is more at work here than the registers of incoherency, ignorance and civic illiteracy. There is also an inconsistency that errs on the side of a militant racism and a racist militarism. For instance, the only moments of clarity in Trump's discourse are when he uses the toxic vocabulary of hate, xenophobia, racism and misogyny to target those he believes refuse to "Make America Great Again."
Monday, December 19, 2016White Nationalism in the Oval Office and the Suppression of Dissent There is more at work here than the registers of incoherency, ignorance and civic illiteracy. There is also an inconsistency that errs on the side of a militant racism and a racist militarism. For instance, the only moments of clarity in Trump's discourse are when he uses the toxic vocabulary of hate, xenophobia, racism and misogyny to target those he believes refuse to "Make America Great Again."
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Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Manufactured illiteracy and miseducation: A long process of decline led to President Donald Trump The reality of Trump's election may be the most momentous development of the age because of its enormity and the shock it has produced. The whole world is watching, pondering how such a dreadful event could have happened. How have we arrived here? What forces have allowed education, if not reason itself, to be undermined?
Tuesday, June 27, 2017Manufactured illiteracy and miseducation: A long process of decline led to President Donald Trump The reality of Trump's election may be the most momentous development of the age because of its enormity and the shock it has produced. The whole world is watching, pondering how such a dreadful event could have happened. How have we arrived here? What forces have allowed education, if not reason itself, to be undermined?
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Friday, June 21, 2019
Let's Shut Down the Authoritarian Machine Trump's ominous tweet about how his supporters might "demand" that he stay in office for more than two terms is the latest proof that his authoritarian ideology has little regard for the law. The tweet also reflects Trump's strong desire to use threats of violence, if necessary, to reshape the political landscape and mode of governance.
Friday, June 21, 2019Let's Shut Down the Authoritarian Machine Trump's ominous tweet about how his supporters might "demand" that he stay in office for more than two terms is the latest proof that his authoritarian ideology has little regard for the law. The tweet also reflects Trump's strong desire to use threats of violence, if necessary, to reshape the political landscape and mode of governance.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Unthinkable Politics and the Dead Bodies of Children The civic function of politics is collapsing, and violence has become the US's habitual response to social problems.
Tuesday, November 1, 2016Unthinkable Politics and the Dead Bodies of Children The civic function of politics is collapsing, and violence has become the US's habitual response to social problems.
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Thursday, February 6, 2020
Trump's SOTU Speech Bristled With Fascist Politics The impeachment process speaks not only to Trump's ongoing criminal behavior and pernicious policies, but also to a mass crisis of civic literacy and the inability of the public to understand how society has broken apart, become crueler, and receded from the language of critique, hope and the social imagination.
Thursday, February 6, 2020Trump's SOTU Speech Bristled With Fascist Politics The impeachment process speaks not only to Trump's ongoing criminal behavior and pernicious policies, but also to a mass crisis of civic literacy and the inability of the public to understand how society has broken apart, become crueler, and receded from the language of critique, hope and the social imagination.
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Thursday, August 17, 2017
Trump's Neo-Nazis and the Rise of Illiberal Democracy It appears that the presence of Nazi and Confederate flags, along with the horrible history of millions lost to the Holocaust and slavery, lynchings, church bombings, and the assassination of Black leaders, such as Medgar Evans and Martin Luther King Jr., did little to move Trump to a serious understanding or repudiation of the poisonous historical forces that surfaced in Charlottesville.
Thursday, August 17, 2017Trump's Neo-Nazis and the Rise of Illiberal Democracy It appears that the presence of Nazi and Confederate flags, along with the horrible history of millions lost to the Holocaust and slavery, lynchings, church bombings, and the assassination of Black leaders, such as Medgar Evans and Martin Luther King Jr., did little to move Trump to a serious understanding or repudiation of the poisonous historical forces that surfaced in Charlottesville.
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Thursday, December 14, 2017
Donald Trump's fascist war on youth Call it Fascism, American-Style. Donald Trump's embrace of authoritarian ideals has extended to a veritable war on America's youth.
Thursday, December 14, 2017Donald Trump's fascist war on youth Call it Fascism, American-Style. Donald Trump's embrace of authoritarian ideals has extended to a veritable war on America's youth.
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Tuesday, April 6, 2021
The Plague of Historical Amnesia in the Age of Fascist Politics As white supremacy becomes entrenched at the highest levels of power and in the public imagination, the past becomes a burden that must be shed.
Tuesday, April 6, 2021The Plague of Historical Amnesia in the Age of Fascist Politics As white supremacy becomes entrenched at the highest levels of power and in the public imagination, the past becomes a burden that must be shed.
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Wednesday, September 9, 2020
Trump's "Law and Order" Rhetoric Is a Rallying Cry for State Violence Violence is a term that should be limited to assaults, injuries and harm waged against human beings, not property. When talking about violence, it is crucial to make a distinction between the destruction of property and violence against persons.
Wednesday, September 9, 2020Trump's "Law and Order" Rhetoric Is a Rallying Cry for State Violence Violence is a term that should be limited to assaults, injuries and harm waged against human beings, not property. When talking about violence, it is crucial to make a distinction between the destruction of property and violence against persons.
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Monday, June 13, 2016
Anti-Politics and the Plague of Disorientation: Welcome to the Age of Trump To struggle against a culture of lies, we need a new political vocabulary that acts as fuel for a radical democracy. What does resistance mean when it is reduced to a call to participate in rigged elections that reproduce a descent into an updated form of oligarch... Instead of tying the fortunes of democracy to rigged elections we need nonviolent, massive forms of civil disobedience.
Monday, June 13, 2016Anti-Politics and the Plague of Disorientation: Welcome to the Age of Trump To struggle against a culture of lies, we need a new political vocabulary that acts as fuel for a radical democracy. What does resistance mean when it is reduced to a call to participate in rigged elections that reproduce a descent into an updated form of oligarch... Instead of tying the fortunes of democracy to rigged elections we need nonviolent, massive forms of civil disobedience.
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Monday, November 30, 2015
Trump's Embrace of Totalitarianism is America's Dirty Little Secret Trump is not just a fool, an idiot, or ethically dead, he is symptomatic of a long line of fascists who shut down public debate, attempt to humiliate their opponents, endorse violence as a response to dissent, and criticize any public display of democratic principles. America has reached its endpoint with Trump, and his presence should be viewed as a stern warning of the nightmare to come.
Monday, November 30, 2015Trump's Embrace of Totalitarianism is America's Dirty Little Secret Trump is not just a fool, an idiot, or ethically dead, he is symptomatic of a long line of fascists who shut down public debate, attempt to humiliate their opponents, endorse violence as a response to dissent, and criticize any public display of democratic principles. America has reached its endpoint with Trump, and his presence should be viewed as a stern warning of the nightmare to come.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Neoliberal Fascism and the Twilight of the Social Trump's discourse and policies are a profound attack on social solidarity and the bonds of social obligation.
Wednesday, September 5, 2018Neoliberal Fascism and the Twilight of the Social Trump's discourse and policies are a profound attack on social solidarity and the bonds of social obligation.
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Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Illuminating the Darkness in the Age of Despair The text of a commencement speech given by Henry Giroux at the University of the West of Scotland's graduation ceremony Tuesday. The university is presenting Giroux with an honorary doctorate.
Tuesday, July 4, 2017Illuminating the Darkness in the Age of Despair The text of a commencement speech given by Henry Giroux at the University of the West of Scotland's graduation ceremony Tuesday. The university is presenting Giroux with an honorary doctorate.
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Revisiting Orwell's "1984" in Trump's America Trump suggested that he intended to demolish environmental protections, resume state-sponsored torture and deny funding to those cities willing to provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants. And this was just the beginning. The financial elite now find their savior in Trump as they will receive more tax cuts, and happily embrace minimal government regulations, while their addiction to greed spins out of control.
Tuesday, January 31, 2017Revisiting Orwell's "1984" in Trump's America Trump suggested that he intended to demolish environmental protections, resume state-sponsored torture and deny funding to those cities willing to provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants. And this was just the beginning. The financial elite now find their savior in Trump as they will receive more tax cuts, and happily embrace minimal government regulations, while their addiction to greed spins out of control.
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Monday, June 1, 2020
Racial Domestic Terrorism and the Legacy of State Violence Neoliberal fascism has taken off the gloves and now resorts to outright terror to keep people of color in check. Every space in the U.S. that people of color occupy is militarized.
Monday, June 1, 2020Racial Domestic Terrorism and the Legacy of State Violence Neoliberal fascism has taken off the gloves and now resorts to outright terror to keep people of color in check. Every space in the U.S. that people of color occupy is militarized.
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Friday, April 27, 2018
Unfashionable Fascism: Mainstream Politicians Switching Sides Under Trump's Regime of Barbarism Unchecked power, a take-no-prisoners politics, and unapologetic cruelty are the currency of fascism, the wedge that makes fear visceral and violence more than an abstraction. This lethal combination is also a condition endemic to brutal demagogues such as Trump. They demand loyalty not to an ideal that expands the meaning of justice and democracy but loyalty to themselves, one that stands above the truth and rule of law.
Friday, April 27, 2018Unfashionable Fascism: Mainstream Politicians Switching Sides Under Trump's Regime of Barbarism Unchecked power, a take-no-prisoners politics, and unapologetic cruelty are the currency of fascism, the wedge that makes fear visceral and violence more than an abstraction. This lethal combination is also a condition endemic to brutal demagogues such as Trump. They demand loyalty not to an ideal that expands the meaning of justice and democracy but loyalty to themselves, one that stands above the truth and rule of law.
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Monday, March 13, 2017
Trump's War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought Donald Trump, the president, is not only a twisted caricature of every variation of economic, political, educational, and social fundamentalism, he is the apogee of an increasingly intolerant and authoritarian culture committed to destroying free speech, civil rights, women's reproductive freedoms, and all vestiges of economic justice and democracy.
Monday, March 13, 2017Trump's War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought Donald Trump, the president, is not only a twisted caricature of every variation of economic, political, educational, and social fundamentalism, he is the apogee of an increasingly intolerant and authoritarian culture committed to destroying free speech, civil rights, women's reproductive freedoms, and all vestiges of economic justice and democracy.
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Sunday, September 10, 2017
Charlottesville, Neo-Nazis and the Challenge to Higher Education Trump signals to his right-wing extremist base and fellow politicians that he justifies state enacted violence against immigrants, especially Latinos. In addition, Trump's language of fear and violence emboldens right-wing extremists and gives them the green light to support legislation and ideologies that are profoundly reactionary.
Sunday, September 10, 2017Charlottesville, Neo-Nazis and the Challenge to Higher Education Trump signals to his right-wing extremist base and fellow politicians that he justifies state enacted violence against immigrants, especially Latinos. In addition, Trump's language of fear and violence emboldens right-wing extremists and gives them the green light to support legislation and ideologies that are profoundly reactionary.
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Monday, December 4, 2017
Gangster capitalism and nostalgic authoritarianism in Trump's America Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, business, entertainment and technology.
Monday, December 4, 2017Gangster capitalism and nostalgic authoritarianism in Trump's America Award-winning news and culture, features breaking news, in-depth reporting and criticism on politics, business, entertainment and technology.
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Friday, January 20, 2017
Militant Hope in the Age of Trump Analysis of the Politics of Hope in the Age of Donald Trump The United States stands at the endpoint of a long series of attacks on democracy, and the choices faced by the American public today point to the divide between those who are committed to democracy and those who are not
Friday, January 20, 2017Militant Hope in the Age of Trump Analysis of the Politics of Hope in the Age of Donald Trump The United States stands at the endpoint of a long series of attacks on democracy, and the choices faced by the American public today point to the divide between those who are committed to democracy and those who are not
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016
Gun Culture and the American Nightmare of Violence The gun violence that we experience reflects the violence of the US political and economic system.
Tuesday, January 12, 2016Gun Culture and the American Nightmare of Violence The gun violence that we experience reflects the violence of the US political and economic system.
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Tuesday, January 23, 2018
'Shithole countries': Trump uses the rhetoric of dictators Donald Trump's language has disturbing similarities to the words and verbal tactics used by fascists, including his cries of "fake news" and his obsessive exaggerations about his achievements.
Tuesday, January 23, 2018'Shithole countries': Trump uses the rhetoric of dictators Donald Trump's language has disturbing similarities to the words and verbal tactics used by fascists, including his cries of "fake news" and his obsessive exaggerations about his achievements.
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Friday, December 23, 2016
Militant Hope in the Age of the Politics of the Disconnect The future looks bleak, especially, for youth in neoliberal societies as they are burdened with debt, dead-end jobs, unemployment, and, if you are black and poor, the increasing possibility of being either incarcerated or shot by the police.
Friday, December 23, 2016Militant Hope in the Age of the Politics of the Disconnect The future looks bleak, especially, for youth in neoliberal societies as they are burdened with debt, dead-end jobs, unemployment, and, if you are black and poor, the increasing possibility of being either incarcerated or shot by the police.
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Monday, June 11, 2018
Trump's Relentless Lies Demand We Make Truth-Telling Great Again There is more at stake here than the threat of censorship, there is also an attack on traditional sources of information and the public spheres that produce them. Trump's government has become a powerful disimagination and distraction machine in which the distinction between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy are erased.
Monday, June 11, 2018Trump's Relentless Lies Demand We Make Truth-Telling Great Again There is more at stake here than the threat of censorship, there is also an attack on traditional sources of information and the public spheres that produce them. Trump's government has become a powerful disimagination and distraction machine in which the distinction between fact and fiction, reality and fantasy are erased.
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Thursday, March 8, 2018
The Parkland Shooting Was About More Than Gun Violence The deeply troubling call for eliminating gun-free zones and arming teachers comes at a time when many schools have already been militarized by the presence of police and the increasing criminalization of student behaviors. Suggesting that teachers be armed and turned into potential instruments of violence extends and normalizes the prison as a model for schools and the increasing expansion of the school-to-prison pipeline.
Thursday, March 8, 2018The Parkland Shooting Was About More Than Gun Violence The deeply troubling call for eliminating gun-free zones and arming teachers comes at a time when many schools have already been militarized by the presence of police and the increasing criminalization of student behaviors. Suggesting that teachers be armed and turned into potential instruments of violence extends and normalizes the prison as a model for schools and the increasing expansion of the school-to-prison pipeline.
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Sunday, April 15, 2018
Educated Hope in Dark Times: The Challenge of the Educator-Artist as a Public Intellectual Increasingly, neoliberal regimes across Europe and North America have waged a major assault on critical pedagogy, public pedagogy, and the public spheres in which they take place.
Sunday, April 15, 2018Educated Hope in Dark Times: The Challenge of the Educator-Artist as a Public Intellectual Increasingly, neoliberal regimes across Europe and North America have waged a major assault on critical pedagogy, public pedagogy, and the public spheres in which they take place.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2017
Combating Trump's Neo-Fascism and the Ghost of "1984" Unfortunately, the discourse of remolding, manipulation, distortion has gained enormous traction at the present time in American society. This is a discourse that reinforces a future in which totalitarianism thrives and democracies die. It is the discourse of a dystopian society marked by a deep-seated anti-intellectualism intensified by the incessant undermining and collapse of civic literacy and civic culture.
Tuesday, February 7, 2017Combating Trump's Neo-Fascism and the Ghost of "1984" Unfortunately, the discourse of remolding, manipulation, distortion has gained enormous traction at the present time in American society. This is a discourse that reinforces a future in which totalitarianism thrives and democracies die. It is the discourse of a dystopian society marked by a deep-seated anti-intellectualism intensified by the incessant undermining and collapse of civic literacy and civic culture.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2016
Trump's Return to the Good Old Days and the Specter of Mass Terror America is at war with itself and Trump is simply one despicable register of that war on democracy. Trump is shrill and unapologetic about his neo-fascist beliefs and policies whereas Hillary Clinton and the rest of the neoliberal centrists wrap their war mongering policies and support for the financial elite in the empty discourse of liberalism with a disingenuous nod towards social justice and democratic values.
Tuesday, October 11, 2016Trump's Return to the Good Old Days and the Specter of Mass Terror America is at war with itself and Trump is simply one despicable register of that war on democracy. Trump is shrill and unapologetic about his neo-fascist beliefs and policies whereas Hillary Clinton and the rest of the neoliberal centrists wrap their war mongering policies and support for the financial elite in the empty discourse of liberalism with a disingenuous nod towards social justice and democratic values.
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Friday, May 13, 2022
The War on Youth in the Age of Fascist Politics - CounterPunch.org One of the most important registers in measuring the democratic health of a society can be found in how it treats its youth. By any current standard, which includes the quality of public schools to laws that protect the health and well-being of young people, the United States is failing miserably.
Friday, May 13, 2022The War on Youth in the Age of Fascist Politics - CounterPunch.org One of the most important registers in measuring the democratic health of a society can be found in how it treats its youth. By any current standard, which includes the quality of public schools to laws that protect the health and well-being of young people, the United States is failing miserably.
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Friday, October 21, 2016
The United States' War on Youth: From Schools to Debtors' Prisons As the United States increasingly models its schools after prisons and subjects children to a criminal legal system marked by severe class and racial inequities, it becomes clear that such children are no longer viewed as a social investment but as suspects. It has become clear that the United States has both failed its children and democracy itself.
Friday, October 21, 2016The United States' War on Youth: From Schools to Debtors' Prisons As the United States increasingly models its schools after prisons and subjects children to a criminal legal system marked by severe class and racial inequities, it becomes clear that such children are no longer viewed as a social investment but as suspects. It has become clear that the United States has both failed its children and democracy itself.
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Monday, October 22, 2018
Neoliberalism in the Age of Pedagogical Terrorism Any dissatisfaction with injustice necessitates combining the demands of moral witnessing with the pedagogical power of persuasion and the call to address the tasks of emancipation. We need individuals and social movements willing to disturb the normalization of a fascist politics, oppose racist, sexist, and neoliberal orthodoxy.
Monday, October 22, 2018Neoliberalism in the Age of Pedagogical Terrorism Any dissatisfaction with injustice necessitates combining the demands of moral witnessing with the pedagogical power of persuasion and the call to address the tasks of emancipation. We need individuals and social movements willing to disturb the normalization of a fascist politics, oppose racist, sexist, and neoliberal orthodoxy.
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Friday, May 25, 2018
Striking Teachers Beat Back Neoliberalism's War on Public Schools If American society is to offset the deeply anti-democratic populist revolt that has put a fascist government in power in the United States, progressives and others need a new language that connects the crisis of schooling to the crisis of democracy. Public schooling is under siege along with the values and social relations that give viable meaning to the common good, economic justice and democracy itself.
Friday, May 25, 2018Striking Teachers Beat Back Neoliberalism's War on Public Schools If American society is to offset the deeply anti-democratic populist revolt that has put a fascist government in power in the United States, progressives and others need a new language that connects the crisis of schooling to the crisis of democracy. Public schooling is under siege along with the values and social relations that give viable meaning to the common good, economic justice and democracy itself.
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Monday, October 5, 2020
Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness In this age of uncertainty, time and space have collapsed into a void of relentless apprehension and the possibility of an authoritarian abyss. The terrors of everyday life point to a world that has descended into darkness.
Monday, October 5, 2020Dystopian plagues and fascist politics in the age of Trump: Finding hope in the darkness In this age of uncertainty, time and space have collapsed into a void of relentless apprehension and the possibility of an authoritarian abyss. The terrors of everyday life point to a world that has descended into darkness.
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Sunday, December 26, 2021
Paulo Freire and the Politics of Critical Pedagogy:A Legacy for Struggle For Paulo Freire, education was the foundation of politics and critical literacy was the emancipatory tool to unlock what it meant to make pedagogy meaningful in order to make it critical and empowering.
Sunday, December 26, 2021Paulo Freire and the Politics of Critical Pedagogy:A Legacy for Struggle For Paulo Freire, education was the foundation of politics and critical literacy was the emancipatory tool to unlock what it meant to make pedagogy meaningful in order to make it critical and empowering.
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Monday, April 17, 2017
Toward a Politics of Ungovernability: Shutting Down American-Style Authoritarianism It is impossible to imagine the damage Trump and his white nationalists, economic fundamentalists, and white supremacists friends will do to civil liberties, the social contract, the planet, and life itself in the next few years. Rather than address climate change, the threat of nuclear war, galloping inequality, the elimination of public goods, Trump and his vicious acolytes have accelerated the threats
Monday, April 17, 2017Toward a Politics of Ungovernability: Shutting Down American-Style Authoritarianism It is impossible to imagine the damage Trump and his white nationalists, economic fundamentalists, and white supremacists friends will do to civil liberties, the social contract, the planet, and life itself in the next few years. Rather than address climate change, the threat of nuclear war, galloping inequality, the elimination of public goods, Trump and his vicious acolytes have accelerated the threats
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Thursday, December 15, 2016
War Culture, Militarism and Racist Violence Under Donald Trump War has been redefined in the age of global capitalism -- war culture now shapes all aspects of society.
Thursday, December 15, 2016War Culture, Militarism and Racist Violence Under Donald Trump War has been redefined in the age of global capitalism -- war culture now shapes all aspects of society.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2019
Resisting the Weaponization of Ignorance in the Age of Trump We most recently saw the weaponization of ignorance exemplified in Trump's disingenuous 2019 State of the Union address.
Tuesday, February 12, 2019Resisting the Weaponization of Ignorance in the Age of Trump We most recently saw the weaponization of ignorance exemplified in Trump's disingenuous 2019 State of the Union address.
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Monday, October 26, 2020
Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and Resistance in Dark Times Across the globe, democratic institutions such as the independent media, schools, the legal system, certain financial institutions, and higher education are under siege.
Monday, October 26, 2020Fascist Culture, Critical Pedagogy, and Resistance in Dark Times Across the globe, democratic institutions such as the independent media, schools, the legal system, certain financial institutions, and higher education are under siege.
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Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Police the People? Just Leave the People Be he words "I can't breathe" were not only uttered by Eric Garner and George Floyd as they were murdered by police. They were also uttered by over 70 others who died in law enforcement custody over the past decade.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021Police the People? Just Leave the People Be he words "I can't breathe" were not only uttered by Eric Garner and George Floyd as they were murdered by police. They were also uttered by over 70 others who died in law enforcement custody over the past decade.
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Saturday, June 19, 2021
To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing The words "I can't breathe" were not only uttered by Eric Garner and George Floyd as they were murdered by police. They were also uttered by over 70 others who died in law enforcement custody over the past decade.
Saturday, June 19, 2021To End Racial Capitalism, We Will Need to Take On the Institution of Policing The words "I can't breathe" were not only uttered by Eric Garner and George Floyd as they were murdered by police. They were also uttered by over 70 others who died in law enforcement custody over the past decade.
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Friday, March 22, 2019
The Ghost of Fascism in the Post-Truth Era We do not live in a post-truth world and never have. On the contrary, we live in a pre-truth world where the truth has yet to arrive. As one of the primary currencies of politics, lies have a long history in the United States.
Friday, March 22, 2019The Ghost of Fascism in the Post-Truth Era We do not live in a post-truth world and never have. On the contrary, we live in a pre-truth world where the truth has yet to arrive. As one of the primary currencies of politics, lies have a long history in the United States.
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Sunday, November 13, 2016
The Authoritarian Politics of Resentment in Trump's America Neoliberalism has channeled a potent politics of anger into individualized resentment that seeks vengeance.
Sunday, November 13, 2016The Authoritarian Politics of Resentment in Trump's America Neoliberalism has channeled a potent politics of anger into individualized resentment that seeks vengeance.
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Thursday, September 17, 2020
Trump aligns ignorance with bigotry as he attempts to rewrite history Trump has made clear his attempt to both defend and rewrite the history of racial injustice in the United States while eliminating the institutions that make visible its historical roots.
Thursday, September 17, 2020Trump aligns ignorance with bigotry as he attempts to rewrite history Trump has made clear his attempt to both defend and rewrite the history of racial injustice in the United States while eliminating the institutions that make visible its historical roots.
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Friday, January 15, 2021
Downplaying Trumpism Is Dangerous Ten Republicans within the House of Representatives helped bestow on Trump the ignoble distinction this week of being the first president to be impeached twice, charging him with "incitement of insurrection."
Friday, January 15, 2021Downplaying Trumpism Is Dangerous Ten Republicans within the House of Representatives helped bestow on Trump the ignoble distinction this week of being the first president to be impeached twice, charging him with "incitement of insurrection."
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Wednesday, November 25, 2015
The War on Terror Is a War on Youth: Paris and the Impoverishment of the Future The war on youth is being waged against and by young people. They are both subjects and objects in a global cycle of violence.
Wednesday, November 25, 2015The War on Terror Is a War on Youth: Paris and the Impoverishment of the Future The war on youth is being waged against and by young people. They are both subjects and objects in a global cycle of violence.
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Thursday, May 2, 2019
Fascism Is on the March. We Need Radical Education to Fight Back. In a world beset by fascist nightmares, radical education offers hope for social transformation.
Thursday, May 2, 2019Fascism Is on the March. We Need Radical Education to Fight Back. In a world beset by fascist nightmares, radical education offers hope for social transformation.
