6 Quotes & Sayings By Henry Giroux

Henry Giroux is a cultural critic and activist based in Montreal, Quebec. He has published four books of essays, one book of poetry, and over fifty articles in both scholarly journals and popular periodicals. His most recent book is American Disjunctive, which will be released in English in 2013 by Semiotext(e). The 2010 recipient of the J.G Read more

Ballantyne Award for Excellence in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, Henry Giroux has been a visiting professor at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology. He received his PhD from York University's Graduate Faculty of Political Science.

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Neoliberalism considers the discourse of equality, justice, and democracy quaint, if not dangerous and must be either trivialized, turned into its Orwellian opposite, or eviscerated from public life. Henry Giroux
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Policy is no longer being written by politicians accountable to the American public. Instead, policies concerning the defense budget, deregulation, health care, public transportation, job training programs, and a host of other crucial areas are now largely written by lobbyists who represent mega corporations. Henry Giroux
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As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them. Henry Giroux
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As the humanities and liberal arts are downsized, privatized, and commodified, higher education finds itself caught in the paradox of claiming to invest in the future of young people while offering them few intellectual, civic, and moral supports. Henry Giroux
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Collective freedom provides the basic conditions for people to narrate their own lives, hold power accountable, and embrace a capacious notion of human dignity. Henry Giroux