Cultural critic Henry Giroux examines the ways in which conflict has entered the fabric of American life – from the ways social and economic problems are met with state violence, to a media and political class the celebrates cruelty and spectacle – and explains why renewing social bonds and class solidarity are key to reclaiming control of public life from the forces that make strangers, and enemies, of us all.
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