Scholar Henry Giroux on Gun Violence and Administration Agendas
A conversation with radical social critic and education Henry Giroux.
A conversation with radical social critic and education Henry Giroux.
Militarism provides ideological support for policies that protect gun owners and sellers rather than children.
Militarism provides ideological support for policies that protect gun owners and sellers rather than children.
Henry Giroux critiques what he believes is a slide toward authoritarianism and other failings that led to the current political climate and rise of Donald Trump.
To transform our society into a democracy, we first have to dismantle the myth of democracy as currently defined.
Giroux: The seeds of terrorism do not lie simply in ideological fundamentalism; they also lie in conditions of oppression, war, racism, poverty, the abandonment of entire generations of Palestinian youth, the dictatorships that stifle young people in the Middle East and the racist assaults on Black youth in urban centers in the United States.
Giroux: Far too many youth today live in an era of foreclosed hope, an era in which it is difficult either to imagine a life beyond the dictates of a market-driven society or to transcend the fear that any attempt to do so can only result in a more dreadful nightmare.
The Nobel Prize-winning author Ngugi wa Thiong’o has insisted rightfully that “Children are the future of any society,” adding, “If you want to maim the future of any society, you simply maim the children.”[1] By Henry A. Giroux PhilosophersforChange.org August 8, 2015 The National Center on Family Homelessness reports that “One in 45 children experience More
Giroux: Many people in the United States now live in a culture that is not only being increasingly militarized, but also supports a growing indifference to such cruelty, reinforced by a notion of exaggerated self-reliance, rugged individualism and privatization, all of which renders group solidarities repugnant and reinforces the idea that care for the other is both a pathology and a liability. Hence, it should come as no surprise that the United States currently has more police, prisons, spies, weapons and soldiers than at any other time in its history - this coupled with a growing "army" of the unemployed and incarcerated.