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Henry A. Giroux: Can Democratic Education Survive in a Neoliberal Society?
Hedge fund managers now sit on school boards across the country doing everything in their power to eliminate public schools and punish unionized teachers who do not support charter …
Ghost of the New Deal Haunts Democrats’ Agenda, but It’s Time to Summon FDR
Obama and most Democrats are so dependent on contributions and support from business and the rich that they dare not discuss, let alone implement, the kinds of policies Roosevelt …
Striking Neoliberalism in Chicago
Under a new assessment system that strongly ties teacher evaluations to student test scores, the city is threatening to put
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Review of Henry Giroux’s Twilight of the Social: Resurgent Publics in the Age of Disposability
What are the limitations and possibilities for reclaiming democracy as a radical idea amid the ruins of neoliberalism? This is the fundamental question posed by Henry Giroux's important new …
Why Couldn’t the Left Prevail in Mexico?
In the past dozen years, left parties in a whole lot of Latin America countriesu2014from Argentina to El Salvadoru2014have won elections and taken power. But, so far, Mexico has …
The “Suicidal State” and the War on Youth
For over thirty years, the North American public has been reared on a neoliberal dystopian vision.
Beyond the Limits of Neoliberal Higher Education: Global Youth Resistance and the American/British Divide
“We need a wholesale revision of how a democracy both listens to and treats young people.”
Militarized Conservatism and the End(s) of Higher Education
There can be little doubt that America has become a permanent warfare state.
From “Morning in America” to the Nightmare on Main Street
Increasingly, the unthinkable emerges in American life as austerity measures are transformed into a specifically deadly way of exercising modes of sovereignty and government power.
A Society Consumed by Locusts: Youth in the Age of Moral and Political Plagues
The deteriorating state of American youth may be the most serious challenge the US faces in the 21st century.