Recent Writings
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"Did the Authorities' Lockdown of Boston Give Us a Taste of the Police State Culture to Come?" | Henry A. Giroux | AlterNet | May 7, 2013 New!

"Lil Wayne's Lyrical Facism" | Henry A. Giroux | Truthdig | Op-ed | April 13, 2013

"Angela Davis, Freedom, and the Politics of Higher Education" | Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | Op-ed | April 9, 2013

"Mad Stories and the Politics of Disposability in Paul Ryan's World" | Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | Op-ed | March 15, 2013

"The Politics of Disimagination and the Pathologies of Power" | Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | Op-ed | February 27, 2013

"The Shooting Gallery: Obama and the Vanishing Point of Democracy" | Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | Op-ed | February 12, 2013

"Henry Giroux: The Necessity of Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times" | By José María Barroso Tristán | Truthout | Interview | February 6, 2013

"The New Extremism and Politics of Distraction in the Age of Austerity," | Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | Op-ed | January 22, 2012

"The War Against Teachers as Public Intellectuals," | Henry A. Giroux | Philosophers for Change | December 20, 2012

"The War Against Teachers as Public Intellectuals in Dark Times," | Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | Op-Ed | December 17, 2012

"Neoliberal Terror and the Age of Disposability," | Henry A. Giroux | Philosophers for Change | December 13, 2012

"Losing Time or Doing Time: Drowning Public Education in the Wake of Hurricane Sandy,"| Henry A. Giroux and Jacqueline Edmondson | Truthout |Op-Ed | December 7, 2012

"Hurricane Sandy in the Age of Disposability and Neoliberal Terror," | Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | Op-Ed | December 3, 2012

"War on Youth & A Conversation with Henry A. Giroux," | Truthout | November 30, 2012

"Beyond the Dead End of American Electoral Politics: Rethinking the Crisis of Politics," |Henry A. Giroux | Truthout |Op-Ed | October 31, 2012

"Can Democratic Education Survive in a Neoliberal Society?" | Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | Op-Ed | October 16, 2012

"The Disappearance of Public Intellectuals," | Henry A. Giroux | CounterPunch | October 8, 2012

"The End of American Democracy?" | Henry A. Giroux | Philosophers for Change | October 4, 2012

"Why Don't Americans Care About Democracy at Home?" | Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | Op-Ed | October 2, 2012

"The Quebec Strike and the Politics of a New Social Awakening," | Henry A. Giroux | Logos | September 2012

"On the Significance of the Chicago Teachers Strike: Challenging Democracy's Demise," | Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | Op-Ed | September 13, 2012

"Days of Rage: The Quebec Student Protest Movement and the New Social Awakening," | Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | Op-Ed | August 28, 2012

"Authoritarian Politics in the Age of Casino Capitalism," | Henry A. Giroux | CounterPunch | August 27, 2012

Archive of Giroux's Articles for Philosophers for Change

"Punishing Youth: Saturated Violence in the Era of Casino Capitalism," | Henry A. Giroux | CounterPunch | August 9, 2012

"Gun violence in America: What Canadians can learn from the U.S.: Gun control is only one factor in a culture," | Henry A. Giroux | The Hamilton Spectator | July 30, 2012

"Colorado Shooting Is About More Than Gun Culture," | By Henry A Giroux | Truthout | News Analysis | July 23, 2012

"From Penn State to JPMorgan Chase and Barclays: Destroying Higher Education, Savaging Children and Extinguishing Democracy," | By Henry A Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed | July 13, 2012

"Beyond the Politics of the Big Lie: The Education Deficit and the New Authoritarianism,"| By Henry A. Giroux, | Truthout | Op-Ed | June 19, 2012

"Henry A. Giroux: The Occupy Movement and the Politics of Educated Hope," | By Henry A. Giroux, | Truthout | Op-Ed | May 18, 2012

"Violence, USA: The Warfare State and the Brutalizing of Everyday Life," | By Henry A Giroux | Truthout | Op-Ed | May 2, 2012

"Zombie Politics, Democracy, and the Threat of Authoritarianism - Part I" | by: Henry A Giroux | TruthDig | April 30, 2012

"The "Suicidal State" and the War on Youth," | by: Henry A Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed April 10 2012

"Hoodie Politics: Trayvon Martin and Racist Violence in Post-Racial America," | by: Henry A Giroux, Truthout | News Analysis | April 2, 2012

"Gated Intellectuals and Ignorance in Political Life: Toward a Borderless Pedagogy in the Occupy Movement," | by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed |
March 20, 2012

"Youth in Revolt: The Plague of State-Sponsored Violence," | by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | News Analysis | March 14, 2012

"The Scorched-Earth Politics of America's Four Fundamentalisms," | by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed | March 6, 2012

"Dangerous Pedagogy in the Age of Casino Capitalism and Religious Fundamentalism,"
by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | News Analysis | February 29, 2012

"The Religionization of Politics and the Tyranny of Totalitarianism: Santorum and God’s Will," by: Henry A. Giroux, | Counter Punch | February 29, 2012

"Fahrenheit 451 redux," by: Henry A. Giroux, | Philosophers of Change | February 28, 2012

"Why Teaching People to Think for Themselves Is Repugnant to Religious Zealots and Rick Santorum," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed | February 22, 2012

"Book Burning in Arizona," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | News Analysis |
February 8, 2012

"Remembering Etta James," | by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed and Video |
January 21, 2012

"Universities Gone Wild: Big Money, Big Sports and Scandalous Abuse at Penn State," |
by: Henry A. Giroux & Susan Searls Giroux | Truthout | Op-Ed | January 5, 2011

"Rejecting Academic Labor as a Subaltern Class: Learning from Paulo Freire and the Politics of Critical Pedagogy," | by: Henry A. Giroux | Fast Capitalism | 8.2, 2011

"Why Faculty Should Join Occupy Movement Protesters on College Campuses," | by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed | December 19, 2011

"Higher education under siege: challenging casino capitalism’s culture of cruelty," | openDemocracy | by: Henry A. Giroux | November 27, 2011

"Occupy Colleges Now: Students as the New Public Intellectuals," | by: Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | News Analysis | November 21, 2011

"Beyond the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide," | Posted by Campaign for the Public University |
November 7, 2011

"The Politics of Ignorance: Casino Capitalism and Higher Education," | by: Henry A. Giroux | CounterPunch | October 31, 2011

The Public Intellectual: Henry A. Giroux - (October 26, 2011)

"Occupy Wall Street's Battle Against American-Style Authoritarianism," | by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | News Analysis | October 26, 2011

"Henry Giroux on Democracy Unsettled: From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth," | by: Michael A. Peters, Truthout | Interview |

"Got Class Warfare? Occupy Wall Street Now!" | by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed | October 6, 2011

"Corporate Media and Larry Summers Team Up to Gut Public Education: Beyond Education for Illiteracy, Vulgarity and a Culture of Cruelty," | by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed | September 27, 2011

"Counter-Memory and the Politics of Loss After 9/11," | by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed | September 12, 2011

"Disney, Militarization and the National Security State After 9/11," by: Henry A. Giroux and Grace Pollock, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. | Book Excerpt | August 23, 2011

"Breivik's Fundamentalist War on Politics, and Ours," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | News Analysis | August 3, 2011

"From Benetton to Murdoch: The Culture of Money, Shock and Schlock," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed | July 27, 2011

"Trickle-Down Cruelty and the Politics of Austerity," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed | July 11, 2011

"The Politics of Militarization and Corporatization in Higher Education: War Colleges," by: Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch | June 29, 2011

"Reveling in the Pain of Others: Moral Degeneracy and Violence in the "Kill Team" Photos," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | News Analysis | June 20 2011

"Neoliberal Politics as Failed Sociality: Youth and the Crisis of Higher Education,"
by Henry A. Giroux, Logos: a journal of modern society & culture, 2011: Vol.10, Issue 2

"Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux," by: C. Cryn Johannsen, Margins of Everyday Life (Friday, 22 April, 2011)

"Zombie Politics: Dangerous Authoritarianism or Shrinking Democracy - Part II,"
by: Henry A. Giroux, Peter Lang Publishing Group | Book Excerpt (Thursday 2,
June 2011)

"Zombie Politics, Democracy, and the Threat of Authoritarianism - Part I,"
by: Henry A. Giroux, Peter Lang Publishing Group | Book Excerpt, (Wednesday 1, June 2011)

"American Democracy Beyond Casino Capitalism and the Torture State," | by: Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | (Monday, 16 May 2011)

"Youth in a Suspect Society: Coming of Age in an Era of Disposability," | by: Henry A. Giroux | Truthout | (Thursday 5, May 2011)

"At the Limits of Neo-Liberal Politics: Disappearing Youth," By HENRY A. GIROUX | CounterPunch | (April 25, 2011)

"Youth Fights Back: Higher Ed Under Siege in the Age of Casino Capitalism,"
by Henry Giroux | Advocate, (Apr 14th, 2011)

"Who will save higher education?" by Henry Giroux | The Hamilton Spectator |
(April 13th, 2011)

"Militarized Conservatism and the End(s) of Higher Education," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout, (Tuesday, 5 April 2011)

"From "Morning in America" to the Nightmare on Main Street," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 08 March 2011) Includes Radio Interview

"Left Behind? American Youth and the Global Fight for Democracy," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Monday, 28 February 2011)

"Torturing Democracy," by: Henry A. Giroux, Paradigm Press | Book Excerpt,
(Tuesday, 08 February, 2011)

"Remembering Howard Zinn, Once Again," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed (Thursday, 27 January, 2011)

"America's Culture of Cruelty," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed,
(Monday, 24 January, 2011)

"America’s ‘culture of cruelty’ The violence in Arizona has much deeper, more pervasive roots than mental illness or even lack of civility," by: Henry A. Giroux, The Hamilton Spectator, (Thu. Jan. 20 2011)

"Beyond the Swindle of the Corporate University: Higher Education in the Service of Democracy," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 18 January,
2011)

"Formative Culture in the Age of Imposed Forgetting," by Henry A. Giroux, Tikkun Magazine, (Winter 2011)

"Selling Out New York City's Public Schools: Mayor Bloomberg, David Steiner and the Politics of Corporate 'Leadership'," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 07 December, 2010)

"Apolitical Alienation in 'The Passenger'," [This is a slightly edited version of an essay written by Henry Giroux that was originally published in the journal Cineaste, Vol. 7, No. 1, Fall 1975, pp. 37-39.] TV Multiversity: Documentary Film, Educational Television, World Cinema, (30 November, 2010)

"Lessons to Be Learned From Paulo Freire as Education Is Being Taken Over by the Mega Rich," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 23 November 2010)

"Living in the Age of Imposed Amnesia: The Eclipse of Democratic Formative Culture," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (16 November, 2010)

"Business Culture and the Death of Public Education: The Triumph of Management Over Leadership", by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Friday, 12 November 2010)

"Farewell Mon Amour: Prospects on Democracy's Electoral Defeat," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 26 October 2010)

"Lessons From Paulo Freire," by: Henry A. Giroux, The Chronicle of Higher Education, (October 17, 2010)

"When Generosity Hurts: Bill Gates, Public School Teachers and the Politics of Humiliation," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 05 October, 2010)

"Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 28 September, 2010)

"Racialized Memories and Class Identities - Thinking About Glenn Beck's and Rush Limbaugh's America," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 07 September, 2010)

"States of Paralysis: America's Surrender to the Spectacle of Terror," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 17 August, 2010)

"How Disney Magic and the Corporate Media Shape Youth Identity in the Digital Age,"
by: Henry Giroux and Grace Pollock, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Wednesday, 04 August, 2010)

"The Disappearing Intellectual in the Age of Economic Darwinism," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Monday, 12 July, 2010)

"Chartering Disaster: Why Duncan's Corporate-Based Schools Can't Deliver an Education That Matters," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Feature,
(Monday, 21 June, 2010)

"Teachers Without Jobs and Education Without Hope: Beyond Bailouts and the Fetish of the Measurement Trap" (Part 2), by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Feature, (Tuesday, 08 June, 2010)

"Dumbing Down Teachers: Attacking Colleges of Education in the Name of Reform" (Part I) by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 25 May, 2010)

"In Defense of Public School Teachers in a Time of Crisis," by: Henry A. Giroux,
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Wednesday, 14 April, 2010)

"A Society Consumed by Locusts: Youth in the Age of Moral and Political Plagues," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed, (Monday, 05 April, 2010)

"On Pop Clarity: Public Intellectuals and the Crisis of Language," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed, (Wednesday, 24 March, 2010)

"Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered," by: Henry A. Giroux,
Truthout | Op-Ed (Thursday, 28 January, 2010)
How Howard Zinn Wanted to Be Remembered [VIDEO] by Jorge Rivas

"Tiger Woods and the Branding of Public Discourse," by: Henry A. Giroux,
Truthout | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 15 December, 2009)

"American Youth in the 21st Century: Pathologized, Criminalized and Disposable," by Henry A. Giroux, AlterNet. (November 16, 2009)

"Benetton's “World without Borders”: Buying Social Change," by: Henry A. Giroux

"Politics and the Subversive Imagination: Youth and the Politics of Prison Culture," by: Henry Giroux, introduction by Tolu Olorunda (22 October, 2009)

"Schools and the Pedagogy of Punishment," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Feature, (Tuesday, 20 October, 2009)

"Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout? The Corporate Stranglehold on Education," by: Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch.org, (September 8, 2009)

"Uncivil Discourse," by: Bill Moyers | Bill Moyers Journal, ( Friday, 04 September, 2009)

"Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Perspective, (Wednesday, 02 September, 2009)

"Obama and the Fierce Urgency of Now: Politics After Hope," by: Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch.org, (August 14-16, 2009)

"Obama's View of Education Is Stuck in Reverse," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Perspective, (Friday, 24 July, 2009)

"The Iranian Uprisings and the Challenge of the New Media: Rethinking the Politics of Representation," by: Henry A. Giroux, Fast Capitalism, 5.2, 2009

"Children of the Recession: Remembering "Manchild in the Promised Land","
Truthout | Perspective, (Monday, 08 June, 2009)

"Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the New Racism: Getting Beyond the Politics of Denial,"
Truthout | Perspective, (Thursda, 04 June, 2009)

"Child Beauty Pageants: A Scene From the "Other America"," by: Henry A. Giroux,
Truthout | Perspective, (Monday, 11 May, 2009)

"Youth and the Myth of Post-Racial Society Under Barack Obama," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Perspective, (Monday, April 27, 2009)

"The Tragedy of Youth Deepens: Ten Years After Columbine," by: Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch.org, (April 20, 2009)

"Disney, Casino Capitalism and the Exploitation of Young Boys: Beyond the Politics of Innocence," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Perspective, (Wednesday 15 April 2009)

"Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Perspective, (Friday 03 April 2009)

"Hard Lessons: Neoliberalism, Education and the Politics of Disposability," by: Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch.org, (March 30, 2009)

"Academic Labor Under Siege: Towards a Politically Engaged Professionalism," by: Henry A. Giroux, The CUNY GC Advocate, (March 2009) in response to Stanley Fish's "Neoliberalism and Higher Education," New York Times, (March 8, 2009)

"Locked Out and Locked Up: Youth Missing in Action From Obama's Stimulus Plan," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Perspective, ( Tuesday 17 February 2009)

"A Task to Make Democracy Matter: Educating Obama," by: Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch.org, (February 6-8, 2009)

"Beyond Bailouts: On the Politics of Education After Neoliberalism," by: Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux, Truthout | Perspective, (Wednesday 31 December 2008)

"Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling," by: Henry A. Giroux and Kenneth Saltman, Truthout | Perspective, (Wednesday 17 December 2008)

"War Talk, the Death of the Social, and Disappearing Children: A Lesson for Obama," by: Henry Giroux, Truthout | Perspective, (Tuesday 16 December 2008)

"Higher Education Without Democracy?" by: Henry Giroux and Chronis Polychroniou, Tikkun, (November - December 2008)

"Disposable Youth in a Suspect Society: A Challenge for the Obama Administration," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Perspective, (Thursday 25 November 2008)

"Against the Militarized Academy," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Perspective,
(Thursday 20 November 2008)

"Obama and the Promise of Education," by: Henry Giroux, Truthout | Perspective, (Sunday 16 November 2008)

"Democracy in dark times: Harper's attack on culture an assault on critical thought and engagement," by Henry Giroux, The Hamilton Spectator, (October 2, 2008), p. A17

"Slouching Towards Bethlehem: The New Gilded Age and Neoliberalism’s Theater of Cruelty," by Henry Giroux, Dissident Voice, ( March 11th, 2008)

"Arming the Academy: Universities in the Shadow of the National Security State," Academic Matters (October 2007), pp. 9-12.

"Academic Repression in the First Person: The Attack on Higher Education and the Necessity of Critical Pedagogy," - The Advocate, ( February 2007) http://gcadvocate.org/index.php?action=view&id=124

"Higher Education Under Siege: Implications for Public Intellectuals," - Thought & Action, ( Fall 2006) pp. 63- 78

"Dirty Democracy and State Terrorism: The Politics of the New Authoritarinism in the United States," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2006.

" Katrina and the Politics of Disposability," - In These Times, (September 14, 2006) http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2822/

" The Politics of Disposability," - Dissident Voice, (September 1, 2006)
www.dissidentvoice.org

"The New Authoritarianism in the United States," - http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan06/Giroux03.htm - www.DissidentVoice.org January 3, 2006.

"Cultural Studies in Dark Times," - Fast Capitalism, (2005)
http://www.fastcapitalism.com/

"Translating the Future and the Promise of Democracy" - Address to convocation by Dr. Henry A. Giroux

"Academic Entrepreneurs: The Corporate Takeover of Higher Education" http://www.tikkun.org/archive/backissues/tik0503/document.2005-03-03.1551907282/view?searchterm=Henry%20Giroux. Tikkun.

"Neoliberalism and the Demise of Democracy: Resurrecting Hope in Dark Times" www.DissidentVoice.org August 7, 2004.

"George Bush's Religious Crusade Against Democracy: Fundamentalism as Cultural Politics." www.DissidentVoice.org. August 4, 2004.

"Penn State Loses Henry and Susan Giroux "
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=37&ItemID=5566

"Class Casualties: Disappearing Youth in the Age of George Bush"
Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor 6:1 (February 2004).

"What Might Education Mean After Abu Ghraib: Revisiting Adorno's Politics of Education." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Vol 24:1, 2004. (requires PDF plugin)

"War on Terror: The Militarising of Public Space and Culture in the United States" Third Text, Vol. 18, Issue 4, 2004, 211-221 (requires PDF plugin)

"Higher Education is More Than a Corporate Logo." www.DissidentVoice.org
January 26, 2004

"Why Aren't Children Included in the Debates About the Impending U.S. War with Iraq?" www.DissidentVoice.org. March 10, 2003.

"Private Satisfactions and Public Disorders: Fight Club, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Masculine Violence."

"Paulo Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism" JAC 12.1 (1992).

"Youth Panic and the Politics of Schooling: The corporate model of teaching needs to be changed" ZMag.org

"Disney, Southern Baptists, & Children’s Culture: The Magic Kingdom as Sodom and Gomorrah?" Zmag.org

"The Business of Public Education" Zmag.org