On this Project Censored Show, host Mickey Huff is joined for the hour by Henry A. Giroux, renowned educator, prolific author, and public intellectual. They discuss the indispensable role of critical education and a vibrant free press in resisting the ghost of fascism in the Trump era. Also discussed is Giroux’s next book with City Lights Books, American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Fascism.Â
Henry A. Giroux is a world-renowned educator, author, and public intellectual. He currently holds the Professorship for Scholarship in the Public Interest and The Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar Chair in Critical Pedagogy. His most recent books include The Violence of Organized Forgetting (City Lights, 2014); Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education (Haymarket, 2014); Disposable Futures (City Lights, 2015); Dangerous Thinking (Routledge, 2015); America’s Addiction to Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, 2016), and America at War with Itself (City Lights, 2017). A prolific writer and political commentator, he has appeared in a wide range of media, including Truthout, Salon, Counterpunch, the New York Times and Bill Moyers & Company. He currently lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, with his wife, Dr. Susan Searls Giroux.
Websites mentioned on this program:
www.henryagiroux.com
www.counterpunch.org
www.truthdig.org
www.truth-out.org