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The Public Intellectual: Tolu Olorunda
Tolu Olorunda Meditations on Hip Hop: Of Disposability, Death and Destiny (Part III)Tuesday 25 May 2010by: Tolu Olorunda, All Hip Hop | Op-Ed Henry Giroux: "Democracy Has Taken a …
Occupy Wall Street’s Battle Against American-Style Authoritarianism
Within a very short time, Occupy Wall Street has changed the national conversation to corporate corruption.
The Public Intellectual: Chronis Polychroniou
Chronis Polychroniou Predatory Capitalism: Old Trends and New RealitiesSaturday, 12 July 2014 09:39By CJ Polychroniou, Truthout | News Analysis Europe in the Iron Grip …
The Public Intellectual: Henry A. Giroux
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 …
Got Class Warfare? Occupy Wall Street Now!
Class warfare has once again entered the vocabulary of mainstream national politics, but with a strange twist.
Corporate Media and Larry Summers Team Up to Gut Public Education: Beyond Education for Illiteracy, Vulgarity and a Culture of Cruelty
Corporate power and money are unchecked as they privatize, deregulate and destroy all vestiges of public life.
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.
An Unending Crisis – America in the 21st Century
The “credibility” gap has spread from the presidency to the entire political system.
Henry Giroux on Democracy Unsettled: From Critical Pedagogy to the War on Youth
“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, Militarization and the National Security State After 9/11
Disney's cultural products rely on innocence as a rhetorical tool to legitimate dominant relations of power.