Henry Giroux

Stephen Miller and the Making of the Fascist Subject Orchestrated brutality reflected not only Miller’s ideology but also his personality. Even his former colleagues described him as insufferable, “rude, arrogant, and consumed by a sense of his own supe...

My article on Stephen Miller and the making of the fascist subject. Miller is a driving force behind most of the egregious, terrifying, and morally bankrupt policies driving Trump's authoritarianism.-Please share:

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Trump’s America: Echoes of a Fascist Past “Historically, the most terrible things war, genocide, and slavery have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” — Howard Zinn The irony is unbearable. US President Donald Trump has satura...

My piece on Trump's America Echoes a Fascist Past.
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My Interview with TV Metro Canada on cultural fascism and youth resistance-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q0scfzHMyg

My article in Policy an Futures on "Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression"

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"Gangster capitalism & nostalgic authoritarianism in Trump’s America": Henry Giroux via Salon - Monthly Review Henry A. Giroux, founding figure in the movement for critical pedagogy and author of more than sixty books, including America’s Addiction to Terrorism and America’s Education Deficit and the War on Yo...

“Gangster capitalism & nostalgic authoritarianism in Trump’s America”: Henry Giroux via Salon
Monthly Review Press Blog
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YouTube video by Democracy At Work Economic Update: Capitalism and Culture, Their Connection in Crisis Now

On Culture and the Crisis of Capitalism
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The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past The irony is unbearable. Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption and violence the grammar of governance. He pledges ...

The Road to the Camps in Trump's America" exposes how the symbols, policies, and strategies that defined fascist regimes are re-emerging today under Trump, not as distant memories, but as urgent warnings written into the fabric of the political moment. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/t...

The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past The irony is unbearable. Trump has saturated public life in lies, turned immigrants and Black citizens into targets of contempt, and made corruption and violence the grammar of governance. He pledges ...

My latest article which traces how echoes of past fascist strategies are resurfacing today in alarming ways: ‘The Road to the Camps: Echoes of a Fascist Past’. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/26/t...

We’re Living on the Raw Edge of Violence - WORT-FM 89.9 Henry Giroux reflects on the state of US politics, the reality of neoliberal fascism, the weakness of legacy media, and how to find hope.

My interview with Allen Ruff on living on the raw edge of democracy--draws heavily on my article The Road to the Camps which will be published by CounterPunch tomorrow 9-26-25
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Pedagogies of Repression Analyses of fascism too often fixate on its most spectacular expressions: staggering inequality, systemic racism, the militarization of daily life, unbridled corruption, monopolistic control of the me...

My article co-authored with Will Paul on Pedagogies of Repression: Ford, Trump and the War on Education
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Trump’s Theater of Cruelty - CounterPunch.org www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/12/t...

Charlie Kirk’s Death Is a Symptom of a National Political Culture in Crisis What we are witnessing is not an isolated act but the manifestation of a wider rot.

My article on Charlie Kirk’s Death as s a Symptom of a National Political Culture in Crisis-one that is barely mentioned
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Trump’s Theater of Cruelty Trump’s obsession with violence is more than a grotesque fixation on power and cruelty; it is a commentary on politics as pathology, a grim theater in which authoritarianism reveals its inner logic. W...

My article on Trump's Theater of cruelty, which is about to get worse given his declaration of war education, the truth, and on what he calls the left--which amounts to any individual, group, or institution that rejects his war on democracy. www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/12/t...

Counter-Memory and the Politics of Loss After 9/11 To address our collapsing intellectual and moral visions, we must reclaim and re-imagine those moments of compassion, social relations and democratic ideals that surfaced briefly after 9/11.

I am reprinting an older article of mine on 9/11. On this anniversary of 9/11, it is important not only to remember the horror of that day and the nearly 3,000 lives lost, but also to confront the devastating aftermath of the so-called war on terror.
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The Democratic Party: Architects of Cowardice, Accomplices to Fascism The Democratic Party has forfeited every claim to moral and political credibility. It is not a bulwark against fascism but an accomplice to it, a party of

www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/08/t...

Trump’s Theater of Cruelty: Fascism’s Malignant Return What he offers is not governance but the intoxication of destruction, the fetishization of cruelty, and the performance of violence as ritual.

My article on Trump’s Theater of Cruelty: Fascism’s Malignant Return. What he offers is not governance but the intoxication of destruction, the fetishization of cruelty, and the performance of violence as ritual.
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Trump’s Cultural Erasure Threatens Democracy in the U.S. and Canada From book bans to attacks on the Smithsonian, authoritarian movements are rewriting history to dismantle democracy—but memory itself can be a powerful form of resistance.

My op-ed on The war on memory: Trump, the Smithsonian and Canada’s book bans--The death of memory is never accidental. It is a project, carefully cultivated by authoritarian regimes intent on erasing the past to control the present. www.laprogressive.com/democracy/tr...

Domestic Terrorism and Spectacularized Violence in Trump’s Warfare State Trump’s authoritarian obsession with violence and punishment is evident in his relentless drive to criminalize dissent and weaponize the state against what he calls “enemies of the people.” He has dem...

My article on the politics of domestic terrorism under the Trump regime
www.counterpunch.org/2025/08/29/d...

War Crimes Against Those Who Risk Everything to Tell the Truth The murder of journalists is not incidental. It is one of the clearest measures of fascism in its most unmasked form.

I am sharing with you my article, “War Crimes Against Those Who Risk Everything to Tell the Truth.” The deliberate murder of journalists is never incidental; it is one of the starkest measures of fascism in its most unmasked and brutal form.
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Death of Memory Is the Death of Democracy This war on memory is not just theoretical; it takes concrete form in the attacks on institutions that hold our collective history.

My latest article on the relationship between the attack on memory, history, historical consciousness, and its implications for the rise of authoritarianism.
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Blinded by the Light: Remembering Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the Age of Normalized Violence What remains particularly ghastly about the rationale for dropping two atomic bombs was the attempt on the part of its defenders to construct a redemptive narrative through a perversion of humanistic ...

This is an earlier article I’ve written on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, an act of unimaginable violence that remains a warning flare for our times. If we fail to remember, if we refuse to learn from history, the consequences are too great to contemplate.
www.counterpunch.org/2021/08/06/b...

Every child is our child: Gaza and the death of global conscience - Salon.com Mass death in Gaza is more than a humanitarian crisis — it's a seismic rupture in our moral universe

My extended article in Salon on the killing of children in Gaza. www.salon.com/2025/08/03/e...

Higher Education Inquirer has reprinted my article on language in the fight against fascism-https://www.highereducationinquirer.org/2025/07/language-in-age-of-fascist-politics.html

YouTube video by Democracy At Work Economic Update: Capitalism and Culture, Their Connection in Crisis Now

My interview with Richard Wolf on Economic Update on culture and authoritarianism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4tG...

Does violence on the screen really lead to violence off them? Violence in movies and video games normalizes a culture of cruelty says Dr. Henry Giroux, a leading voice on education, media, and democracy. He says modern entertainment packages violence as a produc...

My radio interview hosted in New Zealand on the theme "Does violence on the screen really lead to violence off them?

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Resisting the Deadly Language of American Fascism In the age of expanding fascism, the power of language is not only fragile but increasingly threatened. As Toni Morrison has noted, “language is not only an instrument through which power is exercised...

I wanted to share my latest article with you—an exploration of how language, in the hands of authoritarians, becomes both a weapon and a shield.

www.counterpunch.org/2025/07/11/r...

We can still save education — and that's the key to saving democracy Higher education nurtures critical thinking and democratic action. That's why the right wants to destroy it

My article in Salon on how saving education is about saving democracy.
www.salon.com/2025/06/29/w...

We can still save education — and that's the key to saving democracy Higher education nurtures critical thinking and democratic action. That's why the right wants to destroy it

My latest piece in Salon on how saving education is the key to saving democracy.
www.salon.com/2025/06/29/w...

My Truthout Tribute to the death of my dear friend, Bill Moyers.https://truthout.org/articles/bill-moyers-was-a-truth-teller-not-a-stenographer-for-the-powerful/

Hi Everyone, I am enclosing my latest on "Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said’s Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age.” Given the dark times in which we live,
I think Said’s work is more important than ever.