Recent Writings
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"Howard Zinn: A Public Intellectual Who Mattered," by: Henry A. Giroux,
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed (Thursday, 28 January, 2010) New!
How Howard Zinn Wanted to Be Remembered [VIDEO] by Jorge Rivas
"Language and the Politics of the Living Dead," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 19 January, 2010) New!
"Rethinking Education as the Practice of Freedom: Paulo Freire and the Promise of Critical Pedagogy," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Sunday, 03 January, 2010) New!
"Reclaiming Public Values in the Age of Casino Capitalism," by: Henry A. Giroux,
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Wednesday, 23 December, 2009)
"Tiger Woods and the Branding of Public Discourse," by: Henry A. Giroux,
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Tuesday, 15 December, 2009)
"No Bailouts for Youth: Broken Promises and Dashed Hopes," by: Henry A. Giroux,
t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed,
(Monday, 30 November, 2009)
"Zombie Politics and Other Late Modern Monstrosities in the Age of Disposability,"
by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Feature, (Tuesday, 17 November, 2009)
"American Youth in the 21st Century: Pathologized, Criminalized and Disposable," by Henry A. Giroux, AlterNet. (November 16, 2009)
"Market-Driven Hysteria and the Politics of Death," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Feature (Friday, 06 November, 2009)
"Tortured Memories and the Culture of War," by: Henry A. Giroux, Truthout | Op-Ed
(Sunday, 01 November, 2009)
"Benetton's “World without Borders”: Buying Social Change," by: Henry A. Giroux
"Politics and the Subversive Imagination: Youth and the Politics of Prison Culture," by: Henry Giroux, introduction by Tolu Olorunda (22 October, 2009)
"Schools and the Pedagogy of Punishment," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Feature, (Tuesday, 20 October, 2009)
"Youth Beyond the Politics of Hope," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Feature, (Tuesday, 13 October, 2009)
"Brutalizing Kids: Painful Lessons in the Pedagogy of School Violence," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed, (Thursday, 08 October, 2009)
"The Powell Memo and the Teaching Machines of Right-Wing Extremists," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Thursday, 01 October, 2009)
"The Politics of Lying and the Culture of Deceit in Obama's America: The Rule of Damaged Politics," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Monday, 21 September, 2009)
"The New Illiteracy in American Life: Democracy and Politics in the Age of the Spectacle," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Tuesday, 15 September, 2009)
"Is Higher Education in Need of a Moral Bailout?
The Corporate Stranglehold on Education," by: Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch.org, (September 8, 2009)
"Uncivil Discourse," by: Bill Moyers | Bill Moyers Journal, (
Friday, 04 September, 2009)
"Living in a Culture of Cruelty: Democracy as Spectacle," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Wednesday, 02 September, 2009)
"Town Hall Democracy or Mob Hysteria? Rethinking the Importance of the Public Sphere," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Wednesday, 26 August, 2009)
"Obama and the Fierce Urgency of Now:
Politics After Hope," by: Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch.org, (August 14-16, 2009)
"Torturing Children: Bush's Legacy and Democracy's Failure," by: Henry A. Giroux,
t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Monday 03 August 2009)
"Obama's View of Education Is Stuck in Reverse," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Friday, 24 July, 2009)
"The Iranian Uprisings and the Challenge of the New Media: Rethinking the Politics of Representation," by: Henry A. Giroux, Fast Capitalism, 5.2, 2009
"Children of the Recession: Remembering "Manchild in the Promised Land","
t r u t h o u t| Perspective, (Monday, 08 June, 2009)
"Judge Sonia Sotomayor and the New Racism: Getting Beyond the Politics of Denial,"
t r u t h o u t| Perspective, (Thursda, 04 June, 2009)
"Child Beauty Pageants: A Scene From the "Other America"," by: Henry A. Giroux,
t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Monday, 11 May, 2009)
"Youth and the Myth of Post-Racial Society Under Barack Obama," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Monday, April 27, 2009)
"The Tragedy of Youth Deepens: Ten Years After Columbine," by: Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch.org, (April 20, 2009)
"Disney, Casino Capitalism and the Exploitation of Young Boys: Beyond the Politics of Innocence," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Wednesday 15 April 2009)
"Commodifying Kids: The Forgotten Crisis," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Friday 03 April 2009)
"Hard Lessons: Neoliberalism, Education and the Politics of Disposability," by: Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch.org, (March 30, 2009)
"Academic Labor Under Siege: Towards a Politically Engaged Professionalism," by: Henry A. Giroux, The CUNY GC Advocate, (March 2009) in response to Stanley Fish's "Neoliberalism and Higher Education," New York Times, (March 8, 2009)
"Locked Out and Locked Up: Youth Missing in Action From Obama's Stimulus Plan," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, ( Tuesday 17 February 2009)
"A Task to Make Democracy Matter: Educating Obama," by: Henry A. Giroux, CounterPunch.org, (February 6-8, 2009)
"Beyond Bailouts: On the Politics of Education After Neoliberalism," by: Henry A. Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Wednesday 31 December 2008)
"Obama's Betrayal of Public Education? Arne Duncan and the Corporate Model of Schooling," by: Henry A. Giroux and Kenneth Saltman, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Wednesday 17 December 2008)
"War Talk, the Death of the Social, and Disappearing Children: A Lesson for Obama," by: Henry Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Tuesday 16 December 2008)
"Higher Education Without Democracy?" by: Henry Giroux and Chronis Polychroniou, Tikkun, (November - December 2008)
"Disposable Youth in a Suspect Society: A Challenge for the Obama Administration," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Thursday 25 November 2008)
"Against the Militarized Academy," by: Henry A. Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective,
(Thursday 20 November 2008)
"Obama and the Promise of Education," by: Henry Giroux, t r u t h o u t | Perspective, (Sunday 16 November 2008)
": ," by Henry Giroux, The Hamilton Spectator, (October 2, 2008), p. A17
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem: The New Gilded Age and Neoliberalism’s Theater of Cruelty," by Henry Giroux, Dissident Voice, ( March 11th, 2008)
"Arming the Academy: Universities in the Shadow of the National Security State," Academic Matters (October 2007), pp. 9-12.
"Academic Repression in the First Person: The Attack on Higher Education and the Necessity of Critical Pedagogy," - The Advocate, ( February 2007) http://gcadvocate.org/index.php?action=view&id=124
"Higher Education Under Siege: Implications for Public Intellectuals," - Thought & Action, ( Fall 2006) pp. 63- 78
"Dirty Democracy and State Terrorism: The Politics of the New Authoritarinism in the United States," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2006.
" Katrina and the Politics of Disposability," - In These Times, (September 14, 2006) http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2822/
" The Politics of Disposability," - Dissident Voice, (September 1, 2006)
www.dissidentvoice.org
"The New Authoritarianism in the United States," - http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan06/Giroux03.htm - www.DissidentVoice.org January 3, 2006.
"Cultural Studies in Dark Times," - Fast Capitalism, (2005)
http://www.fastcapitalism.com/
"Translating the Future and the Promise of Democracy" - Address to convocation by Dr. Henry A. Giroux
"Academic Entrepreneurs: The Corporate Takeover of Higher Education" http://www.tikkun.org/archive/backissues/tik0503/document.2005-03-03.1551907282/view?searchterm=Henry%20Giroux. Tikkun.
"Neoliberalism and the Demise of Democracy: Resurrecting Hope in Dark Times" www.DissidentVoice.org August 7, 2004.
"George Bush's Religious Crusade Against Democracy: Fundamentalism as Cultural Politics." www.DissidentVoice.org. August 4, 2004.
"Penn State Loses Henry and Susan Giroux "
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=37&ItemID=5566
"Class Casualties: Disappearing Youth in the Age of George Bush"
Workplace: A Journal of Academic Labor 6:1 (February 2004).
"What Might Education Mean After Abu Ghraib: Revisiting Adorno's Politics of Education." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Vol 24:1, 2004. (requires PDF plugin)
"War on Terror: The Militarising of Public Space and Culture in the United States" Third Text, Vol. 18, Issue 4, 2004, 211-221 (requires PDF plugin)
"Higher Education is More Than a Corporate Logo." www.DissidentVoice.org
January 26, 2004
Archive
1. "Doing Cultural Studies: Youth and the Challenge of Pedagogy," Harvard
Educational Review 64:3 (Fall 1994), pp. 278-308.
2. "Animating Youth: the Disnification of Children's Culture," Socialist Review
24:3 (1995), pp. 23-55.
3. "Racism and the Aesthetic of Hyper-real Violence: Pulp Fiction and Other
Visual Tragedies," Social Identities 1:2 (1995), pp. 333-354.
4. "Slacking Off: Border Youth and Postmodern Education," Journal of
Advanced Composition 14:2 (Fall 1994), pp. 347-366
5. "Teenage Sexuality, Body Politics and the Pedagogy of Display"
6. "When Hope is Subversive." Tikkun Vol. 19, No. 6 (requires PDF plugin)
7. "Neoliberalism and the Vocationalization of Higher Education." Workplace
8. "The Corporate War Against Higher Education." Workplace. 5.1 October 2002 10. "Education Incorporated?" Educational Leadership. Volume 56 .2. 12-17,October 1998.
11. "Paulo Freire and the Politics of Postcolonialism" JAC 12.1 (1992).
12. "Zero Tolerance: Youth and the politics of domestic militarization" ZMag.org
13. "Youth Panic and the Politics of Schooling: The corporate model of teaching needs to be changed" ZMag.org
14. "Disney, Southern Baptists, & Children’s Culture: The Magic Kingdom as Sodom and Gomorrah?" Zmag.org
15. "The Business of Public Education" Zmag.org
