Trump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists. ― Hannah...
View ArticleShutting Down American-Style Authoritarianism
[Note from Tikkun: We are happy to share with you the latest thinking of Tikkun’s contributing editor Henry Giroux. We have a strategy to defeat Trumpism, and a training on how to be an effective...
View ArticleGangster Capitalism and Nostalgic Authoritarianism
Gangster capitalism and nostalgic authoritarianism in Trump’s America by HENRY A. GIROUX Just one year into the Donald Trump presidency, not only have the failures of American democracy become clear,...
View ArticleHenry A. Giroux | The Ghost of Fascism in the Age of Trump
In the age of Trump, history neither informs the present nor haunts it with repressed memories of the past. It simply disappears. Memory has been hijacked. This is especially troubling when the...
View ArticleGun Violence as State Sponsored Domestic Terrorism
Editor’s Note: In a society which has never acknowledged its violent foundation from the genocide of Native peoples, to slavery, to the violent overthrow of governments around the world in order to...
View ArticleUnfashionable Fascism
[Editor’s note: What happens when lesser-evil politics leads us to embrace politicians to fight the horrific Trump regime who themselves have their hands filled with blood? It’s a difficult choice,...
View ArticleHenry Giroux on Striking Teachers Beating Back the war on Public Schools
Thousands of teachers and students are walking out of schools, marching in the streets, and raising their hands and signs in protest against the war on education. Most recently, South Carolina has...
View ArticleTrump’s War on Children is an Act of State Terrorism
State terrorism comes in many forms, but one of its most cruel and revolting expressions is when it is aimed at children. Even though U.S. President Donald Trump backed down in the face of a scathing...
View ArticleThe Politics of Neoliberal Fascism
“Every age has its own fascism” – Primo Levi Introduction The nightmares that have shaped the past and await return slightly just below the surface of American society are poised to wreak havoc on us...
View ArticleTrump and the Ghosts of the Past in Fascist America
The entrepreneurs of hate are no longer confined to the dustbin of history, particularly the 1930s and 1940s. They are with us once again producing dystopian fantasies out of the decaying communities...
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