The Public Intellectual

Articles by Henry A. Giroux Countering the Right-Wing Takeover of the US: An Interview With Henry A. GirouxTuesday, November 28, 2017By Henry A. Giroux | Audio Segment Democracy on …

Class warfare has once again entered the vocabulary of mainstream national politics, but with a strange twist.

Corporate power and money are unchecked as they privatize, deregulate and destroy all vestiges of public life.

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.

The “credibility” gap has spread from the presidency to the entire political system.

“Theory needs to be rigorous and accessible, and it needs to address not merely the outer limits of disciplinary scholarship but also important social problems.”

Disney's cultural products rely on innocence as a rhetorical tool to legitimate dominant relations of power.

Youth are now assaulted by a never-ending proliferation of marketing strategies that colonize their consciousness and daily lives.

The tragic slayings in Norway raise anew serious questions about domestic terrorism and its roots in right-wing ideology and fundamentalist movements.

The aestheticization of shock, difference and glamour misappropriates social consciousness.