How racist rhetoric normalizes cruelty, legitimizes political violence, and transforms language into an instrument of intimidation and racial domination.

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How racist rhetoric normalizes cruelty, legitimizes political violence, and transforms language into an instrument of intimidation and racial domination.

In a conversation with LA Progressive, the political theorist examines MAGA's embrace of cruelty, the corporate counterrevolution against the 1960s, and why defeating Trump will not be enough to save ...

Social critic and political analyst Henry A. Giroux examines Corporate Power - Unleashed, Unbound

From Pete Hegseth’s vision of future warfare to the erosion of democratic institutions, systemic cruelty is becoming an ordinary instrument of power.

More than four decades ago, the Greek composer and public intellectual Manos Hadjidakis issued a warning that now reads less like a reflection on fascism than a prophecy of our own time. The greatest ...

In his magnificent Age of Extremes, the late historian Eric Hobsbawm warned that one of the defining characteristics of the late twentieth century was that men and women increasingly lived in a “sort ...

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.

Le racisme scientifique est une pseudoscience qui abreuve la propagande d'extrême-droite, dont masculiniste. Longtemps relégué aux marges, il s’installe dans les universités et cherche à imposer ses …

Beyond Historical Amnesia and the Politics of Decontextualization

Spectacle and the Destruction of Jason Arday

Hundreds of stories about one Black Cambridge professor expose the racial double standards, concentrated power and mythology of objectivity embedded in modern journalism.

The controversy surrounding the death of Jason Arday has produced a revealing moment of institutional self-defense, if not abject moral cowardice, within the liberal press. Three recent interventions ...

To understand Meza's significance today, and why her work continues the radical tradition that links art to the urgency of moral witnessing, it is necessary to recognize what has been lost.

I am sickened and deeply saddened by the death of Jason Arday. He was only 41, a young man whose life was cut short following a period of intense public controversy and scrutiny, much of it shaped by ...

From education to politics and culture, corporate power is narrowing the spaces where people learn to question authority, imagine alternatives and act as democratic citizens.

Henry A. Giroux argues that the militarization of Canadian universities threatens to transform institutions devoted to critical inquiry and democratic life into extensions of the warfare state.

Every day we scroll past photographs of burned children, bombed-out neighborhoods, families clawing through rubble with their bare hands, and parents carrying the bodies of sons and daughters killed b...

Every day we scroll past photographs of burned children, bombed-out neighborhoods, families clawing through rubble with their bare hands, and parents carrying the bodies of sons and daughters killed beneath collapsing concrete. Such images seldom unsettle our conscience, provoke outrage, and awaken a demand for justice. Increasingly, they do none of these things. They register briefly before dissolving into another statistic, another headline, another passing image in the endless digital stream. Violence has become familiar, suffering routine, and genocide itself is in danger of becoming just another image consumed and forgotten..

Henry Giroux argues the criminalization of protest is a pattern Canada knows well, from Wet’suwet’en land defenders to campus demonstrations.

The youth-led Cockroach Janta Party converted defiance into a rapidly expanding movement.  With more than 20 million followers on Instagram, it built an alternative public sphere beyond the government...

Contemporary proponents of “institutional neutrality” fail to grasp that universities have never been outside politics.

Every democracy worthy of the name recognizes a simple but indispensable truth: dissent is not its enemy but its lifeblood. The freedom to criticize those in power, expose injustice, challenge entrenc...

We can’t look away from Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians — or the movement for a free Palestine.

Another life has been taken. Another family has been shattered. Another community has been left to mourn.

1. U.S. Supreme Court Decisions Resetting Precedent Part 2 Back we go to review of more cases from the recent term of the U.S. Supreme Court. We start with the birthright citizen case. Then we take up...

The assault on birthright citizenship is an attempt to steal one of Reconstruction's greatest democratic achievements. As constitutional scholar Sherrilyn Ifill reminds us, the framers of the Fourteen...

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Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue, exploitation into spectacle, and mistakes its own deepest failures for its grea...

From book bans and school takeovers to censorship and political intimidation, the struggle over education has become a battle over who gets to shape the future of democratic society.

“A new administration must screen out those who regard Government service as the door to power or wealth, those who cannot distinguish between private gains and public trust, and those who believe …

At stake is more than educational policy. What is being contested is whether education will nurture critically engaged citizens capable of resistance, or produce subjects trained for adaptation, silen...

Universities risk becoming agents of militarized socialization rather than sites of democratic education.