Higher Education and the Plague of Authoritarianism

October 26, 2017 @ York University, Toronto

The John Eleen Annual Lecture in Global Labour at York University, Toronto.

What is the Role of Higher Education in a Time of Legitimized Violence?

October 1, 2017 @ McMaster University, Hamilton

A talk by Dr. Henry A. Giroux at at the Gandhi Peace Festival's "Education for our Times: Towards a Culture of Peace, Nonviolence and Social Justice" conference.

Q&A with Henry Giroux from the "Bring Your Own Brain: Free Us from Climate Chaos" Symposium

June 13, 2017 @ The University of Montana

From the Bring Your Own Brain: Free Us from Climate Chaos Symposium at the University of Montana 6/13/17

Rethinking Education in the Age of Emergent Authoritarianism

July 5, 2017 @ The University of the West of Scotland

In July 2017, Henry Giroux came to Scotland to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of the West of Scotland. Following this event, he engaged in a public conversation with UWS colleagues Diarmuid McAuliffe (School of Education) and Graham Jeffery (School of Media, Culture and Society). That conversation took place in front of a capacity audience on the UWS Paisley Campus and covered a wide range of critical issues within Education, Culture and Society.

Henry Giroux Honorary Doctorate and Address at the University of the West of Scotland

July 4, 2017

Powerful address given by Prof. Henry Giroux on receiving his honorary doctorate at the University of the West of Scotland graduation ceremony.

Between Orwell and Huxley in the Age of the New Authoritarianism: A Challenge for Public Intellectuals

March 2, 2017 @ McMaster University, Hamilton

A talk by Dr. Henry Giroux, Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies & McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest to celebrate the donation of his archives to McMaster University Library. Henry Giroux, Professor, Department of English and Cultural Studies & McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest to celebrate the donation of his archives to McMaster University Library.

Henry Giroux on Youth and Pedagogy at the Lannan Foundation

October 14, 2015 @ Santa Fe, New Mexico

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Where is the Outrage? Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times

September 24, 2015 @ McMaster University, Hamilton

Henry Giroux’s lecture at the MacPherson Institute addresses the larger corporate and market driven forces now shaping all aspects of education, politics, culture, and everyday life in North America. In this talk, there will be a special emphasis on the role that critical pedagogy plays in defining not only traditional spheres of schooling but also a crucial form of public pedagogy that is at the heart of contemporary politics. In this sense, Giroux’s lecture explores what might be called the educative nature of culture and politics. At the same time, the lecture considers a number of related educative and pedagogical concerns central to the field of critical pedagogy including the notion of teachers as public intellectuals, pedagogy and the project of a substantive democracy, a politics of responsibility, and finally, pedagogy as a form of resistance and educated hope.

Neoliberal Violence in the Age of Orwellian Nightmares

December 4, 2014 @ Fanshawe College, Ontario

Fanshawe College, Ontario.

Ontario Common Front: Henry Giroux on Youth, Neoliberalism, and the Future

August 19, 2013

Highlights from keynote address. Full video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygPDRoTkKfU.

Youth and the Politics of Disposability in Dark Times

January 16, 2013 @ McMaster University, Hamilton

With the rise of market fundamentalism and the ensuing economic and financial meltdown, youth are facing a crisis unlike that of any other generation. Young people, especially low income and poor minority youth, are no longer seen as a social investment but are increasingly interpreted as a social problem and burden. This talk raises important questions regarding the role that educators, in particular, might play in challenging the plight of young people while deepening and extending the promise of an aspiring democracy.

Public Intellectuals and the Crisis of Higher Education as a Public Good

October 4, 2012 @ The University of Western Ontario

Henry Giroux’s lecture investigates how market-driven ideology has increasingly pressured universities to forego their commitment to dynamic forms of learning, and to instead provide students with a watered-down, commercialized form of workplace training (i.e. “let’s get you a job!”). Throughout his talk, Giroux explores and illuminates the various ways in which this pressure works to corrode and destroy higher education’s moral commitment to democratic values, civic responsibility, and critically engaged forms of citizenship. 

Youth in Revolt: Coming of Age in an Era of Savage Inequality

May 1, 2012 @ The University of Calgary

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Youth and the Politics of Disposability: Critical Education in the New Gilded Age

March 14, 2008 @ McGill University

Public address at the official launch of the Paulo and Nita Freire International Project for Critical Pedagogy.

Henry Giroux on Trump Authoritarianism, Neoliberalism, and Rabid Individualism

November 22, 2017 @ Opednews.com

Henry Giroux, author of The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism and, America at War with Itself, discusses, Trump's authoritarianism, rampant neoliberalism and the rabid individualism that goes with it.

CTV - Giroux's Commentary on Comey's Senate Testimony Regarding Trump Obstruction

June 11, 2017 @ CTV (Canada)

Henry A. Giroux is interviewed on CTV (Canada) on June 9, 2017 to provide his analysis of the political theater playing out in the US.

Be Thankful for a Dysfunctional Chaotic White House

February 23, 2017 @ TheRealNews.com

Henry Giroux and Paul Jay discuss the Trump-Bannon-Pence administration, a naked display of the 1% ruling without apologies and damn what comes tomorrow

McMaster Prof. Henry Giroux discusses Donald Trump

February 7, 2017 @ Cable 14 Hamilton

Dr. Henry Giroux explains why it's important for our democracy to pay attention & think about how U.S. President Donald Trump is manipulating his messaging around anger & "fear of the other" using social media & otherwise.

Do Corporate Democrats Like Charles Schumer Belong in a Progressive Movement Against Trump?

January 26, 2017 @ TheRealNews.com

Henry Giroux and Paul Jay discuss the relationship between the movement against Trump’s neo-fascism and the struggle against corporate control of the Democratic Party

Trump’s Cabinet, the Church of Neoliberal Evangelicals

December 26, 2016 @ TheRealNews.com

Professor Henry Giroux says the appointments signal a future of more war and violent military interventions, and an embrace of Islamophobia

A Tear in the Fabric of America’s Political Theater

October 30, 2016 @ TheRealNews.com

Henry Giroux and Paul Jay discuss the collapsing facade of American democracy

Is Trump's Rise a Result of America Declaring War on Institutions That Make Democracy Possible?

October 14, 2016 @ Democracy Now!

In his new book, scholar Henry Giroux examines "America at War with Itself." From poisoned water in Flint and other cities to the police deaths of African Americans to hatemongering on the presidential campaign trail, Henry Giroux critiques what he believes is a slide toward authoritarianism and other failings that led to the current political climate and rise of Donald Trump.

The Scourge of Neoliberalism w/ Henry Giroux

September 23, 2016 @ RT

Henry Giroux joins us to talk about his new book, “America at War With Itself,” and the meaning of neoliberalism.

Henry Giroux on Trump: How Did This Happen?

March 29, 2016 @ McMasterUTV

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BaldPolitiKs Interview with Henry A. Giroux

October 27, 2016 @ BaldPolitiKs

BaldPolitiKs interviews Henry Giroux on 26 October 2016 - American at War with Itself

Julian Casablancas Interviews Henry Giroux

September 13, 2016 @ Rolling Stone

The Strokes singer interviews renowned cultural critic in wide-ranging talk on big banks, deceptive journalism and democracy.

Neofascism of the Law and Order Candidate

August 17, 2016 @ TheRealNews.com

Henry Giroux tells Paul Jay that fear is an organizing principle of U.S. society

Trump and the Enablers of American Authoritarianism (2/2)

July 19, 2016 @ TheRealNews.com

Scholar Henry Giroux in conversation with Paul Jay says ‘lesser evilism’ is the wrong way to frame the elections - it’s about what’s better for the strategic interests of an independent people’s struggle

Trump and the Fascistization of America (1/2)

July 19, 2016 @ TheRealNews.com

Scholar Henry Giroux tells Paul Jay that Donald Trump is not an eccentric populist, but the representative of a neofascist politics that ignores evidence, believes truth is merely an opinion, and says dissent is unpatriotic

Keiser Report: America at War with Itself (2nd half)

June 16, 2016 @ RT

Max interviews Henry Giroux, author of the forthcoming book, America at War with Itself. They discuss the descent into madness as demonstrated by the latest presidential clown show.

Henry Giroux: Trump's Popularity Can Be Attributed to Culture of Fear, Racism and Hate

March 12, 2016 @ CBC TV

In this CBC TV interview, Henry Giroux explains that Donald Trump's popularity can, in part, be attributed to at least three issues.

Age of the Selfie in the Neoliberal Era

March 2, 2015 @ TeleSUR English

Critics have long pointed out that the social media phenomena of the Selfie is rooted in vanity and narcissism. But scholar and cultural critic Henry Giroux says it is about much more. Show Host Chris Spannos speaks with Henry about the Selfie.

Henry Giroux: Liberty and Justice for All?

August 13, 2014 @ The Agenda with Steve Paikin

Author and scholar Henry Giroux sits down with Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss his new book "The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine." Giroux argues that the United States' embrace of a surveillance state and culture of violence have replaced the values of freedom, liberty and justice, putting American democracy in jeopardy.

TAFTtalks - Neoliberalism, Youth, and Social Justice

March 27, 2014

"In a special interview, Truthout contributor Henry Giroux takes us back to the basics of what can be seen as an ongoing and accelerating war between the rich and everyone else, an event that has resulted in a mass inability "to translate private troubles into larger structural public considerations."

Truthout Interviews with Henry Giroux on Neoliberalism

June 15, 2014 @ Truthout.com

English and Cultural Studies professor, Henry A. Giroux, talks about the challenges of the Left in a neoliberal political economy.

Henry Giroux on 'Zombie' Politics

November 22, 2013 @ Moyers & Company

In his book, Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, author and scholar Henry Giroux connects the dots to prove his theory that our current system is informed by a "machinery of social and civil death" that chills "any vestige of a robust democracy."

YouthandWork.ca's Interview with Henry Giroux, Part 2

August 31, 2013 @ YouthandWork.ca

Part two of the interview cover Professor Giroux's views on how youths are disciplined under the neoliberal project, how student debt is used to condition youths, how youths are now perceived to be a threat to society, and the rise of the punishing, carceral state.

YouthandWork.ca's Interview with Henry Giroux, Part 1

August 31, 2013 @ YouthandWork.ca

Part one of the interview covers Professor Giroux's perspective on recent historical events (9/11, the financial crisis, globalization, the surveillance state, retrenchment of the social welfare state, and the ongoing neoliberal project.

YouthandWork.ca's Interview with Henry Giroux, Part 3

August 31, 2013

Part three of the interview covers Professor Giroux's perspective on social media, the use of language, how alternative media can be utilized by progressives, and emerging social movements like Idle No More and Occupy.

Truthout Interviews with Henry A. Giroux

August 22, 2013 @ Truthout.com

Ted Asregadoo speaks to Henry A. Giroux -- Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and board member of Truthout-- about his article on Truthout, "When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: A Critical Pedagogy Manifesto."