Henry Giroux
@girouxh.bsky.social
Academic, writer, public intellectual, books, articles, Jazz, R&B, Etta James, Rachel Farrell, Billie Holiday, James Baldwin, Malcolm X, wine and roses.
My latest article, “MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy,” now published on CounterPunch. What begins as imagery becomes part of a spectacle that shapes how power is felt, seen, and lived in the shaping of an authoritarian state.
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MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy
The United States is not merely awash in brutalizing and murderous acts of state-sanctioned violence. It is being restructured by them. The killings of Rachel Good and Alex Pretti are not aberrations ...
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February 13, 2026 at 2:01 PM
My latest article, “MAGA Aesthetics and Fascist Power: Spectacles of White Supremacy,” now published on CounterPunch. What begins as imagery becomes part of a spectacle that shapes how power is felt, seen, and lived in the shaping of an authoritarian state.
www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/13/m...
www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/13/m...
I want to highlight a new piece, “Epistemicide in Gaza: How Israel Eradicates Memory by Breaking the Chain of Consciousness Production,” on The Palestinian Information Center.
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“Epistemicide” in Gaza, how Israel eradicates memory by breaking the chain of consciousness production
The Israeli war of extermination against the Gaza Strip is not limited to mass killing and the military destruction of the urban and civilian built environment.
english.palinfo.com
February 12, 2026 at 4:41 PM
I want to highlight a new piece, “Epistemicide in Gaza: How Israel Eradicates Memory by Breaking the Chain of Consciousness Production,” on The Palestinian Information Center.
english.palinfo.com/Zionist-Terr...
english.palinfo.com/Zionist-Terr...
My article on MAGA aesthetics in The Bullet:
Fascist Aesthetics Has Come Back with MAGA Politics
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Fascist Aesthetics Has Come Back with MAGA Politics
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Fascist Aesthetics Has Come Back with MAGA Politics
What is most revealing about the MAGA aesthetic is its studied ugliness. On one side stands the grotesque excess of beauty-pageant femininity, plastic smiles, puffy lips, lacquered beach-wave hair, sh...
socialistproject.ca
February 3, 2026 at 4:44 PM
My article on MAGA aesthetics in The Bullet:
Fascist Aesthetics Has Come Back with MAGA Politics
socialistproject.ca/2026/02/fasc...
Fascist Aesthetics Has Come Back with MAGA Politics
socialistproject.ca/2026/02/fasc...
My article on “Domestic Terrorism in Plain Sight: White Supremacy, State Violence, and the Assault on Democracy” argues that domestic terrorism in the U.S. is increasingly carried out through state power in the service of white supremacy and fascist politics.
www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/30/d...
www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/30/d...
Domestic Terrorism in Plain Sight: White Supremacy, State Violence, and the Assault on Democracy
The United States is under siege, not by a foreign enemy, but by the Trump administration, which has transformed governance itself into a form of domestic terrorism in the service of a white supremaci...
www.counterpunch.org
January 30, 2026 at 3:48 PM
My article on “Domestic Terrorism in Plain Sight: White Supremacy, State Violence, and the Assault on Democracy” argues that domestic terrorism in the U.S. is increasingly carried out through state power in the service of white supremacy and fascist politics.
www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/30/d...
www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/30/d...
My article on the pedagogy of comfort versus the pedagogy of risk.
www.laprogressive.com/education-re...
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Depoliticizing Pedagogies of Comfort and Instrumentalism
A university that confuses comfort with care, risks becoming an institution of managed ignorance or a laboratory for indoctrination.
www.laprogressive.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:45 PM
My article on the pedagogy of comfort versus the pedagogy of risk.
www.laprogressive.com/education-re...
www.laprogressive.com/education-re...
My article on Fascist MAGA Aesthetics Has Come Back Matching Fascist Politics
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Fascist Aesthetics Has Come Back Matching Fascist Politics
Fascist movements have always understood aesthetics as pedagogy—as a way of training people to feel power before they are allowed to think about it.
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January 21, 2026 at 6:28 PM
My article on Fascist MAGA Aesthetics Has Come Back Matching Fascist Politics
www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...
www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...
My article on The Disconnected Present published in Counterpunch
www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/19/t...
www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/19/t...
The Disconnected Present: Neoliberal Fascism and the Politics of Erasure
In this political climate, outrage is incessantly manufactured and then swiftly displaced, replaced by the next shock before the public can assemble the fragments into a coherent political picture. Ea...
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January 21, 2026 at 6:24 PM
My article on The Disconnected Present published in Counterpunch
www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/19/t...
www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/19/t...
My article on critical education in the age of authoritarianism, co-authored with Will Paul, just appeared in Canadian Dimension.
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Critical education in an age of authoritarianism
At its best, education refuses to accept the world as presented by the powerful, the financial elite, or the enablers of fascism. This is why authoritarian regimes relentlessly target teachers, univer...
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January 21, 2026 at 6:22 PM
My article on critical education in the age of authoritarianism, co-authored with Will Paul, just appeared in Canadian Dimension.
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canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...
My forthcoming article, “The Disconnected Present: Neoliberal Fascism and the Politics of Erasure,” will appear in CounterPunch this week. The essay argues that neoliberal fascism governs less through persuasion than through distraction, fragmentation, erasure, and fear.
January 17, 2026 at 3:36 AM
My forthcoming article, “The Disconnected Present: Neoliberal Fascism and the Politics of Erasure,” will appear in CounterPunch this week. The essay argues that neoliberal fascism governs less through persuasion than through distraction, fragmentation, erasure, and fear.
My article on "As Trump Expands Imperial Aggression in Venezuela, Corporate Media Falls in Line" published in Truthout: truthout.org/articles/as-...
As Trump Expands Imperial Aggression in Venezuela, Corporate Media Falls in Line
What we are witnessing is fascism unbound, armed with military force and insulated with media complicity.
truthout.org
January 6, 2026 at 9:27 PM
My article on "As Trump Expands Imperial Aggression in Venezuela, Corporate Media Falls in Line" published in Truthout: truthout.org/articles/as-...
My article on Critical Education in the Age of Trump’s Fascist Politics has just been published in the Cairo Review.
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www.thecairoreview.com/essays/criti...
Critical Education in the Age of Trump’s Fascist Politics
To protect democracy, the classroom must remain a space of freedom, not fear
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January 5, 2026 at 4:59 PM
My article on Critical Education in the Age of Trump’s Fascist Politics has just been published in the Cairo Review.
www.thecairoreview.com/essays/criti...
www.thecairoreview.com/essays/criti...
My latest book arrived today. Great way to start the new
Year.
Year.
January 1, 2026 at 3:34 AM
My latest book arrived today. Great way to start the new
Year.
Year.
I’m deeply honored that Peter McLaren — whose work in critical pedagogy, social justice, and educational transformation has guided and inspired me and so many others — offered an extraordinarily generous and thoughtful tribute in this piece
www.laprogressive.com/education-re...
www.laprogressive.com/education-re...
December 29, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I’m deeply honored that Peter McLaren — whose work in critical pedagogy, social justice, and educational transformation has guided and inspired me and so many others — offered an extraordinarily generous and thoughtful tribute in this piece
www.laprogressive.com/education-re...
www.laprogressive.com/education-re...
Counterpunch has named my Assassins of Memory as one of the best books of 2025.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/23/b...
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Booked Up: The Best Books of 2025
America, América: A New History of the New World Greg Grandin (Penguin) Freedom Ship: The Uncharted History of Escaping Slavery by Sea Marcus Rediker
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December 24, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Counterpunch has named my Assassins of Memory as one of the best books of 2025.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/23/b...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/23/b...
This remarkable documentary on Georg Lukács, regarded as a founder of Western Marxism,now available on YouTube, revisits the ideas and legacy of a thinker whose work continues to illuminate the politics of history, consciousness, and struggle.
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Georg (2019) - documentário sobre György Lukács
YouTube video by Vinícius
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December 18, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This remarkable documentary on Georg Lukács, regarded as a founder of Western Marxism,now available on YouTube, revisits the ideas and legacy of a thinker whose work continues to illuminate the politics of history, consciousness, and struggle.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuEJ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuEJ...
Trump’s response to the Reiners’ deaths marks a moment when cruelty ceased to be rhetorical and became fully normalized as political practice. In that moment, grief was weaponized, and authoritarianism spoke plainly. I explore this in my article below:
truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org/articles/tru...
Trump’s Response to Reiner’s Death Shows the Cruelty at the Core of His Politics
This language is not Trump’s alone. It is the language of MAGA politics and everything that enables it.
truthout.org
December 18, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Trump’s response to the Reiners’ deaths marks a moment when cruelty ceased to be rhetorical and became fully normalized as political practice. In that moment, grief was weaponized, and authoritarianism spoke plainly. I explore this in my article below:
truthout.org/articles/tru...
truthout.org/articles/tru...
The past in all of its horror is defining the present. My Democracy Now interview in 2016. www.democracynow.org/2016/10/14/i...
Is Trump’s Rise a Result of America Declaring War on Institutions That Make Democracy Possible?
In his new book, scholar Henry Giroux examines “America at War with Itself.” From poisoned water in Flint and other cities to the police deaths of African Americans to hatemongering on the presidentia...
www.democracynow.org
December 14, 2025 at 9:53 PM
The past in all of its horror is defining the present. My Democracy Now interview in 2016. www.democracynow.org/2016/10/14/i...
Universities are no longer neutral spaces. In this article, I examine how higher education is being reshaped under a rising fascist politics, and why defending academic freedom and critical pedagogy is now an urgent democratic task.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/h...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/h...
Higher Education in the Time of Fascist Plague
What is at stake is far more than a rejection of gangster capitalism and the global misery it produces. The deeper danger lies in recognizing that education has become the primary battlefield in the c...
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December 13, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Universities are no longer neutral spaces. In this article, I examine how higher education is being reshaped under a rising fascist politics, and why defending academic freedom and critical pedagogy is now an urgent democratic task.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/h...
www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/h...
My article, "Echoes of Hitler and Pinochet: How Trump’s Policies Resurrect State Terror," just appeared in LA Progressive: www.laprogressive.com/democracy/hi...
Echoes of Hitler and Pinochet: How Trump’s Policies Resurrect State Terror
America’s fascist dress rehearsal including torture, dehumanization, and the collapse of democratic norms are no longer theoretical—they’re preparing for the next act.
www.laprogressive.com
December 1, 2025 at 2:35 AM
My article, "Echoes of Hitler and Pinochet: How Trump’s Policies Resurrect State Terror," just appeared in LA Progressive: www.laprogressive.com/democracy/hi...
My article on "Disappeared Memory in the Age of Fascism" has just appeared on the The Istituto Fiorentino di Critica Culturale website. You can access it here: www.ifcc-research.org/publications
Publications | Istituto Fiorentino
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December 1, 2025 at 12:28 AM
My article on "Disappeared Memory in the Age of Fascism" has just appeared on the The Istituto Fiorentino di Critica Culturale website. You can access it here: www.ifcc-research.org/publications
I finished my latest book tonight, Disappearing Futures: Education Against the Politics of Erasure, and will send it to my publishers Bloomsbury on Monday. This was really a labor of love.
November 30, 2025 at 3:27 AM
I finished my latest book tonight, Disappearing Futures: Education Against the Politics of Erasure, and will send it to my publishers Bloomsbury on Monday. This was really a labor of love.
The attack on memory and the rewriting of history is more than an act of censorship it is a form of state terrorism.
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Death of Memory Is the Death of Democracy
This war on memory is not just theoretical; it takes concrete form in the attacks on institutions that hold our collective history.
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November 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
The attack on memory and the rewriting of history is more than an act of censorship it is a form of state terrorism.
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When a U.S. president embraces a foreign strongman notorious for murder, torture, and censorship, something far larger than diplomacy is at stake: fascism replaces any pretense to democratic ideals. truthout.org/articles/in-...
In Courting Saudi Arabia, Trump Emulates Mohammed Bin Salman’s Authoritarianism
Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman are united by their shared ideology of censorship and state violence.
truthout.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
When a U.S. president embraces a foreign strongman notorious for murder, torture, and censorship, something far larger than diplomacy is at stake: fascism replaces any pretense to democratic ideals. truthout.org/articles/in-...