All across the United States, people
are rising up–refusing to be complicit in the slow-motion annihilation of
democracy. They march against a regime that strips away public goods,
criminalizes dissent, vanishes students, and hollows out the very institutions
meant to protect civic life.
But these assaults are not new; they
are the culmination of what I once called the
scorched-earth politics of America’s four fundamentalisms: market worship,
ideological conformity, religious zealotry, and educational repression. These
fundamentalisms have steadily laid the groundwork for a society governed by
violence, cruelty, and unaccountable power–where the market is sacrosanct,
history is erased, justice is inverted, and knowledge is policed.
Today, these forces converge in a
violent crescendo, a politics of cleansing intent on purging democracy of its
ethical substance and moral vocabulary. The government is hollowed out, memory
is criminalized, and the law is weaponized to serve the interests of those in
power.
Racialized others are marked for
disappearance, as society sinks into a state of profound erasure. What remains
is not merely authoritarian rule, but a theater of terror, where disposability
becomes the guiding principle and silence is dangerously mistaken for peace.
Politics has become the extension of
crime itself, with governance morphing into organized barbarism. At every level
of society, militarization and repression have taken root, directed not only at
critics but at entire communities.
This is a state-sponsored culture of
fear aimed at immigrants, dissenters, and marginalized populations. It
manifests in overt abductions of U.S. citizens, targeted because of their race,
their dissent, or their opposition to Trump’s domestic and foreign policies. As
the fabric of democratic life unravels, the groundwork is laid for the rise of
authoritarian rule, where resistance is met with violence, and the very
principles of freedom and justice are hollowed out.
This is not governance in the
democratic sense; it is the blueprint for authoritarian control disguised as
order. The dismantling of public institutions, the suppression of historical
memory, the dismantling of legal protections, the assault on higher education,
the abduction of students, and the demonization of dissent all signal the
emergence of a new mode of state terrorism.
This machinery of domination no longer
hides its contempt for democracy. It mimics, manipulates, and ultimately
discards it. It channels the darkest moments of the past, echoing the brutality
of slavery, the violence of the police state, and the horror of the camps. In
this rising authoritarian landscape, the state no longer serves the people; it
abandons them to a ruthless order in which solidarity is shattered, justice is
privatized, and hope is exiled to the margins. This is fascism on steroids.
Resistance is rising, fierce,
luminous, and charged with hope. Across the nation, people are pushing back
against a regime that robs them of the very essence of life: security, care,
sustenance, and dignity. University faculty, students, and more and more
administrators are calling for Academic
Mutual Defense Compacts to defend themselves against Trump’s attacks
from city streets to university campuses, this defiance grows stronger every
day. Workers, educators, artists, federal employees, and students, among
others, are rising up against the erosion of their rights, the violence
inflicted upon their bodies, and the assault on their sense of justice and
agency.
As fears mount over the collapse of
retirement funds, immigration status, police violence, and job security, the
crushing weight of scarcity, poverty, and powerlessness takes a toll, both
emotionally and physically. With food prices soaring and consumer goods
becoming more elusive, the misery deepens. Yet, in the face of this darkness,
resistance continues to grow, an act of bold defiance against what Rob Nixon
calls the “slow
violence” of policies that crush daily life, erase memory, and hollow out
the very meaning of agency.
This tide of defiance confronts a
politics of cleansing and erasure, spreading like wildfire through the body of
democracy: a state stripped to serve the market, memory razed and rewritten,
dissent smothered beneath ideological obedience, law twisted into a weapon of
vengeance, and racial others cast beyond the bounds of belonging.
This is not mere policy, it is a war
on the very idea of justice, equality, and freedom, and it must be named for
what it is: a multi-front cleansing campaign that demands unrelenting mass
resistance. These protests are not symbolic gestures; they are insurgent
affirmations that the promise of a radical democracy is not dead, only
endangered, and still worth fighting for.
Yet, they unfold under an ominous
horizon: a politics of cleansing, governmental, ideological, legal, racial, and
historical that is intensifying in the U.S. and metastasizing globally,
threatening to become the blueprint for a brutal new world order.
Governmental Cleansing and the Death
of Social Responsibility
Governmental cleansing begins with a
calculated assault on governance as an instrument of the public good. In
Trump’s America, the state is no longer envisioned as a guardian of collective
well-being. It no longer is seen as offering vital protections like Medicare,
Social Security, affordable housing, and public education; instead, it is viewed
as an obstacle to unfettered capitalism.
Neoliberalism provides the ideological
scaffolding for this transformation. It redefines freedom as the absence of
regulation, empties democracy of its social content, and reduces all human
obligations to the cold calculus of profit and efficiency. In this worldview,
there are no social problems only personal failures, no public goods, only
private investments. This is a politics with closing horizons, one that
undermines translating private troubles into larger systemic structural issues.
Milton
Friedman’s infamous assertion that “the social responsibility of business
is to increase its profits” epitomizes a worldview where social justice is seen
as heretical and public welfare is synonymous with socialism. Friedman’s
contempt for collective responsibility and his sanctification of profit as
moral imperative reveal the ideological foundation of this new horizon of
barbarism and cruelty. He writes:
But the doctrine of ‘social
responsibility’ taken seriously would extend the scope of the political
mechanism to every human activity… That is why, in my book Capitalism
and Freedom, I called it a ‘fundamentally subversive doctrine’ in a free
society, and have said that in such a society, ‘there is one and only one
social responsibility of business to use its resources and engage in activities
designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the
game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception
or fraud’…
Talk about social responsibility by businessmen is nothing more than
pure and unadulterated socialism. Businessmen who talk this way are unwitting
puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a
free society these past decades.
Friedman was not alone. Friedrich
Hayek warned that even modest forms of state intervention would lead
inevitably to tyranny. Margaret Thatcher took
it further, famously declaring that “there is no such thing as society,” only
individuals and their families. And Ronald Reagan, the affable face of
neoliberal rollback, sealed the message when he proclaimed in his 1981
inaugural address, “Government is not the solution to our problem; government
is the problem.” With that, the ideological war on the social state was no
longer whispered, it became national doctrine.
In Trump’s authoritarian worldview,
social responsibility is not a democratic obligation but a fatal weakness–a
threat to market supremacy and a check on unchecked power. Any commitment to
equality, inclusion, justice, or the common good is cast as a liability to be
eliminated. Trump’s policies do not merely echo this neoliberal logic; they
manipulate and weaponize it.
Federal employees are purged,
regulatory agencies dismantled, and essential public services auctioned off to
private interests. What emerges is not a government of, by, and for the people,
but a privatized state of exception where cruelty is policy, social needs are
criminalized, and governance becomes the handmaiden of wealth and power.
This is not merely the rollback of the
state; it is a resurgence of market-driven authoritarianism. In this regime,
democracy is gutted of its moral core, replaced by an apparatus of
disposability built on raw power, profit, and the “airbrushing
of the unpalatable and the unfortunate.”
In Trump’s America, we
are witnessing the rise of a criminalized regime of terror. How else can we
explain Issie
Lapowsky’s report in Vanity Fair, which reveals that
Trump is “openly flirting with the prospect of deporting immigrants and green
card holders deemed criminals to the cruel and dehumanizing mega-prison in El
Salvador.” Noah
Bullock, executive director of Cristosal, aptly calls the CECOT Prison a
“judicial black hole.”
David
Levi Strauss adds some detail to Bullock’s comment noting that “CECOT
can hold up to 40,000 prisoners, when they’re stacked up like cordwood. Those
held there have no visitation rights, no recreation time, no exposure to the
outside, no reading material, no bedding, and they will never leave the
facility.”
Memory Cleansing and the Plague of Historical Amnesia
Across the country memory laws are
emerging designed to ban critical renditions of history, narratives that
challenge dominant renderings that whitewash, censor, and exclude the history
of the oppressed, slavery, cruelty, war, and regressive notions of exceptionalism
that give a voice to those written out of history.
Historical amnesia has become a
central pedagogical tool of Trump’s fascist politics and state terrorism.
Drawing from the past has become dangerous in Trump’s America because history
allows students and the larger public to draw parallels, recognize patterns,
and learn how not to repeat the worse acts of oppression in history.
Memory matters because it gives people
the language not to overlook or dissolve as Timothy
Snyder notes “the historical consequences of slavery, lynchings …
voter suppression,” and other acts of injustice. Trump and his MAGA black
shirts are doing more that producing what Hazel
Carby calls “a national crusade to control historical knowledge,” they
are turning history into a racist weapon.
History cleansing is part
of a broader
backlash against inclusive histories; it is a central element of
authoritarian regimes that make people disappear by eliminating their
histories, memories, institutions of learning, and in the end their dignity,
agency, and collective identities.
Historical cleansing, as Maximillian
Alvarez aptly describes it, is a “twenty-first-century political
warfare on long-term historical consciousness.” This war is unfolding in the
United States, where books are banned, libraries are purged, and far-right
politicians demand that public and higher education institutions sanitize the
curriculum, erasing “the
difficult parts of our past.”
In this form of ideological cleansing,
the brutality of racism is obscured. Facts like the brutal truth that “between
1877 and 1950, more than 4,000 Black men, women, and children were lynched in
cities and towns across the country,” and that the lynching of Black
men and boys continues, though no longer as public spectacles, are
systematically erased.
This racial terror has deep roots in history, yet it is
now being deliberately erased from the historical record. In its place, a new
spectacle has emerged—one defined by mass deportations and the rise of the
prison as a central instrument of fear, lawlessness, and punishment. David
Levi Strauss aptly characterizes this intensified focus on the
punishing state as “carceral porn,” a powerful reflection of our times. His
words are worth quoting at length:
Carceral porn reached a new level of
depravity on March 26, when Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem (aka ICE
Barbie) channeled Kafka in the penal colony and Lynndie England at Abu Ghraib
and shook her ass in front of rows of caged, bare-breasted tattooed prisoners
in El Salvador’s CECOT prison. She was wearing a blue cap with a badge and an
18-karat gold Rolex Cosmograph Daytona watch worth about $50,000. Noem has made
a cottage industry out of parading around in swat or combat gear in the midst
of disasters, with a make-up person and hairstylist in tow. Of the above image,
she said, ‘People need to see that image.’
The spectacularizing of politics
cannot be removed from the whitewashing history, another potent form of
depoliticization–an erasure in which the censorship of truth not only
obliterates the struggles of the marginalized and oppressed but also dismantles
critical thinking, the rule of law, and the very notion of justice. Under
Trump, this deliberate politics of organized forgetting extends into the
mechanisms of state violence, where those erased from the historical narrative
are abandoned to detention centers, prisons, and the brutalities of a police
state.
Memory cleansing is not merely a
distortion of history; it transforms politics into a lie, legitimizing the
exclusionary acts that silence people’s voices and erase their histories,
desires, and identities. Like all authoritarian regimes, the Trump administration
seeks to turn the public into historical amnesiacs, obscuring the violence,
corruption, and exploitation woven into the fabric of gangster capitalism and
authoritarian power.
It denies the lessons of the past that
show us that what happened before need not happen again. Being attentive to
history is not just an intellectual exercise; it is a moral imperative,
directed at making people understand that learning from history teaches us to
recognize how
future crimes can be prevented by remembering the past in all its painful
truth.
Ideological Cleansing and the Rise of
Indoctrination Factories
Fascism endures not merely through
brute force, but through the systematic erasure of memory, critical knowledge,
and informed judgment. It intertwines historical amnesia with ideological
cleansing, preventing the public from accessing past catastrophes so that,
as Maria
Pia Lara powerfully observes, they are unable to “exercise judgments
whose results can give rise to disconcerting truths.”
This process of historical cleansing
inevitably leads to moral cleansing, which enacts the stage upon which other
violent dramas can be produced. Fascism flourishes in a world where lies
replace truth, spectacles drown out critical thought, and fear serves to
justify and legitimize the apparatuses of indoctrination.
Across the United States, universities
and public institutions are increasingly transformed into ideological
battlegrounds. Books that address racism, gender violence, and settler
colonialism are being banned. Professors who challenge the Trump regime, tackle
urgent social issues, or advocate for Palestinian freedom face harassment and,
in many cases, dismissal.
As Zane
McNeill reports in Truthout, international students, too,
are now increasingly vulnerable, subjected to government harassment simply for
engaging in political discourse or dissent– targeted because they fail to meet
the White House’s ideological litmus test for what constitutes a “patriotic”
resident. Over
600 international students across more than a hundred institutions
have had their visas revoked, with social media monitored by U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services for supposed “antisemitic content.”
This pattern of ideological repression
extends beyond the classroom, where entire academic departments, especially
those focused on Middle Eastern Studies, are systematically dismantled, branded
as havens of “ideological
capture,” and accused of fueling “antisemitic harassment” through
targeted legislation. Faculty members are being stripped of their jobs, their
tenure, and their dignity, subjected to a surveillance state that calls to mind
the darkest chapters of history echoing
the purges of Hitler’s Germany and Augusto Pinochet’s Chile.
Ron DeSantis, the self-proclaimed
anti-woke governor of Florida, embodies this crackdown with frightening
precision. In a brazen act of ideological surveillance, pedagogical repression,
and an intricately planned assault against all levels of critical education,
DeSantis issued
an executive order demanding that Florida’s colleges and universities
submit detailed records of faculty research grants over the last six years,
including lists of papers published by faculty.
This sends a clear, chilling message
to those faculty and others researching topics related to critical race theory,
which Donald
Trump has vilified as “a hateful Marxist doctrine that paints America
as a wicked nation…rewrites American history…and teaches people to be ashamed
of themselves and their country.”
Columbia University’s shameful
acquiescence to the Trump administration’s demands for ideological purification
starkly underscores the failure of American higher education to defend justice,
truth, and the rights of students. In her searing critique, Fatima Bhutto captures
the spirit of Columbia University capitulation to authoritarianism. She writes:
Trying to prove that they are a
university the government can rely on, Columbia has …agreed to ban certain
masks, empowering new campus security personnel to arrest students, and
appointed someone to oversee the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African studies
department and the Palestine studies center of study. “Vichy on the Hudson,”
Professor Rashid Khalidi called them recently, referring to France’s Vichy
regime that collaborated with Nazi Germany.
Ideological cleansing is not limited
to public and higher education. Trump’s recent executive order targeting the
Smithsonian for promoting “anti-American ideology” echoes the darkest chapters
of history. In July 1937, Hitler organized the notorious Degenerate
Art Exhibition to condemn any cultural expression that defied state
doctrine.
The intent then, as now, was to impose
a singular, monolithic national narrative and criminalize complexity and
artistic dissent. Fascism thrives on political theater that celebrates cruelty,
militarism, manufactured ignorance, and a multitude of fundamentalisms, whether
rooted in neoliberalism, religious tyranny, white supremacy, ultra-nationalism,
or settler-colonialism.
As Donalyn
White and Anthony Ballas rightly argue, ideological cleansing
and historical amnesia are central to today’s capitulation to fascism. The
politics of historical oblivion embrace not only ideas but also bodies, leading
directly to concentration camps, prisons, and modern-day gulags.
The White House’s deliberate
erasure of history reaches its nadir with the removal of anti-slavery
icon Harriet Tubman‘s image and biography from the U.S. Park Service
website, an ideological lynching that seeks to wipe away the legacy of slavery
while diminishing the profound contributions of African-Americans to the
nation’s story.
This isn’t an oversight; it’s a
calculated assault on memory, a form of aesthetic assassination where icons
like Tubman are disposed in to dustbin of history, alongside figures like
Jackie Robinson, former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and the Tuskegee
Airmen. In this act, the far-right not only rewrites history but attempts to
re-imagine the very identity of America itself, one that can no longer
acknowledge the brutal truths of its past or the resistance, courage, and
brilliance of its Black citizens.
This is the dangerous terrain upon
which we now tread. To allow this cleansing to continue is to abandon the very
essence of democratic life and the moral imperatives that should guide us. We
must recognize that the erasure of history, both in the mind and in the body,
is not a neutral act, it is an invitation to totalitarianism.
Legal Cleansing and the End of
the Rule of Law
Legal cleansing refers to the
systematic dismantling of the law as a democratic safeguard and its conversion
into a tool of authoritarian rule. This pattern of legal cleansing replaces the
rule of law with the law of rule. It is not about justice, but about
domination, turning the law into an instrument of exclusion, vengeance, and
authoritarian control.
Under Trump, the law is no longer
about protecting rights, it’s about enforcing loyalty. Federal employees are
fired en masse to make room for partisan loyalists. Trump has threatened elite
law firms, many
of whom are capitulating to his demands–smeared judges who rule against him and promised to pardon those convicted of political violence.
He’s
vowed to revoke Social Security numbers from immigrants and carry out
mass deportations without due process, all done beyond the boundaries of the
law. The Trump-aligned Congress is passing laws to
restrict the independence of the courts and the power of judges. The Trump
administration is relentless in its efforts to purge experienced, nonpartisan
civil servants and replace them with political loyalists who will enforce his
agenda without question.
In the process, legal protections are
dismantled, regulatory agencies are stripped of their power, and dissent is
treated as a crime. Immigrants
and students have been abducted off the street, thrown into unmarked
vehicles, and disappeared into remote ICE detention centers, for little more
than advocating pro-Palestinian views. No charges. No trial. No justice.
The sheer horror of this form of
organized barbarism was starkly revealed when El Salvador’s ruthless
dictator, Nayib
Bukele, met with Trump and callously refused to return Abrego Garcia to the
United States, dismissing him as a “terrorist” he would not “smuggle” into the
country. Garcia is not a terrorist, and the government itself admitted that he
was mistakenly deported.
Yet it gets worse. As Hafiz
Rashid reports in The New Republic, despite the Supreme
Court’s order for Garcia’s return to the U.S., “the Trump administration has
stalled and refused, hiding behind semantics and technicalities. And with the
backing of a dictator like Bukele, the White House seems content to let an innocent
immigrant languish in a gulag,” showing a complete disregard for justice and
due process.
State terrorism extends beyond
physical violence; it flourishes through the embrace of irrationality, with the
state justifying acts of terror under the guise of national security. A
striking example is the state-sponsored
abduction of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student
involved in anti-Israel protests.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a memo,
stated that while Khalil’s beliefs may be lawful, he invoked a provision of the
Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 granting the Secretary of State the
authority to “personally
determine” whether he should remain in the country based on his “expected
beliefs.”
This alarming statement, with its
Nuremberg-like laws and Kafkaesque nightmares, exposes the essence of
authoritarian regimes, where punishment extends beyond actions to preemptively
target individuals for their very thoughts. It echoes the darkest chapters of
totalitarian history, where freedom is not just stifled but eradicated at its
roots. This is no mere legal overreach; it is a blatant assault on due process
and liberty, a grotesque perversion of justice designed to strip away the most
fundamental human rights.
No one is immune from the looming
terror unleashed by the Trump administration. When White House press secretary
Karoline Leavitt casually claims that Trump was not joking about deporting U.S.
citizens to the notorious El Salvador prison, this frightening threat demands
our full attention.
It is not just rhetoric; it is a stark warning of the
grave dangers this administration poses to our basic freedoms, and a harrowing
glimpse into the shape fascism is taking in America. These threats are matched
by a ruthless campaign to crush dissent, erode civil liberties, and cultivate a
climate of fear and repression that threatens the very foundation of a strong
democracy.
This is an American
style fascism without apology, unhinged in its violation of rights,
justice, and essential democratic freedoms. Such rhetoric transforms dissent
into a criminal act before it even occurs, exemplifying the essence of legal
and ideological cleansing that underpins fascist politics.
It reveals the deeply irrational
nature of authoritarian rule, where the state not only controls actions but
seeks to control the very minds of its citizens, justifying state violence and
terrorism against those deemed undesirable, whether for their beliefs, speech,
or associations. This escalation into ideological terror is the hallmark of
fascism, which thrives on the erasure of reason, the criminalization of free
thought, and the normalization of state-sanctioned violence.
It is worth emphasizing, this logic is
already at work on the ground. Students demanding justice for Palestine face
arrest, suspension, deportation. Protest is branded as terrorism. Solidarity is
met with surveillance. And all of it unfolds under the shadow of a government
preparing to use the full weight of the state, military included, to crush
dissent.
For the Trump administration to openly
declare the power to abduct and imprison individuals not for what they have
said or done, but for what they might think, secretly believe, or may come to
believe, is a mind-numbing manifestation of Orwellian terror. This,
without question, stands as a glaring example of state-sanctioned brutality,
nothing less than state terrorism.
Trump’s purge of the military,
targeting high-ranking commanders and inspector generals is not mere
reshuffling, but a calculated attempt to replace constitutional loyalty with
personal devotion. It echoes the most dangerous precedents in modern history:
Hitler’s co-optation of the Wehrmacht, Pinochet’s military coup in Chile, and
the deployment of armed forces under Videla in Argentina.
This is the scaffolding of militarized
authoritarianism, where the armed forces no longer protect the republic but
enforce the will of a would-be strongman. If Trump turns the military against
dissidents, demonstrators, or student protesters, as he has repeatedly
threatened, the expectation is chillingly clear: they will obey.
In this vision, the law is no longer
tethered to justice; it becomes a tool for vengeance, exclusion, and raw
domination. The silence and craven accommodation to fascism that follows is not
peace, it is complicity. And what looms on the horizon is not order, but the
slow, calculated unfolding of a coup already in motion.
Racial Cleansing and the Scourge of
White Supremacy
State violence always has a target,
and it is painfully evident that these targets are racialized. From the
southern border to the voting booth, from campus protests to inner-city
neighborhoods, racial cleansing is no longer a hidden strategy, it is a governing
principle. Hundreds of immigrants are detained and deported without due
process, sometimes sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador or held indefinitely
in ICE facilities where human rights are an afterthought.
Under Nayib
Bukele reign of terror, the concept of governing through crime is visible
in the fact that “ 84,000 people have been arrested and jailed, usually
without a trial, hearing, or any other due process of law.” Black and brown
communities are overpoliced, under protected, and routinely brutalized, caught
in the crosshairs of a carceral state that sees them not as citizens but as
threats. Police violence has become a normalized form of racial discipline and
terrorism, while white supremacist militias are emboldened and often protected.
Stephen Miller, a well-documented
white nationalist, stands as one of the most influential architects behind
Trump’s racist policies. Infamous for championing the cruel separation of
thousands of children from their parents during Trump’s first administration,
Miller has long aligned himself with far-right media and figures.
His outspoken
opposition to DACA and calls to end Temporary Protected Status for
predominantly non-white populations further underscore his deeply entrenched
racism. This bigotry is so well-known that even his
own family members have publicly denounced him.
Racial cleansing manifests through a
cascade of reactionary policies. The right to vote is under siege, restricted
through gerrymandering, voter roll purges, intimidation at polling stations,
and laws designed to disenfranchise communities of color. DEI programs are
being dismantled under the pretense of purging racist policies, when in truth
they are targeted precisely because they seek to redress systemic racism. In
schools and universities, anti-racist pedagogy is vilified, books are censored;
books by authors of color are banned, and any effort to center marginalized
voices is cast as indoctrination.
Muslim communities are relentlessly
surveilled; their lives scrutinized under policies that disproportionately
target them. Latinx neighborhoods are raided. Indigenous sovereignty is
ignored. And students who protest these injustices, especially those who defend
Palestinian rights are labeled as extremists and enemies of the state.
Conclusion
In an age when fascism no longer hides
in the shadows, we must learn to see clearly the architecture of cleansing now
hollowing out and already weakened democracy–socially, ideologically, legally,
and racially. This is not merely about isolated policies, but the totality of a
system, a mode of neoliberal fascism, that feeds on amnesia, fear, and
disposability. To resist, the American public needs to become historically
conscious, attuned to how power operates both in the bloodstream of everyday
life and in plain sight.
As the late sociologist, Pierre Bourdieu reminds
us, gangster capitalism or its updated version of neoliberal fascism thrives
not only through repression but through the death of imagination, the
dismantling of critical thought, informed judgment, and the very institutions
that nurture them. It is essential to challenge the formation of oppressive
identities, agency, and subjectivity, while equally vital is the cultivation of
cultural and educational forces that can undo them.
Just as we must confront the economic,
financial, and institutional structures of neoliberal fascism, both nationally
and globally, it is equally crucial to recognize that domination operates on an
intellectual and pedagogical level, shaping minds and ideas as much as markets
and policies.
What’s needed now is not just
understanding and outrage, but organized defiance. Education must be reclaimed
as a vehicle of liberation, capable of producing critical, informed, and
courageous citizens. This is not the time for silence or spectatorship. It is a
time to act in defense of freedom, justice, equality, and the fragile dream of
a democracy not yet fully realized.
Henry A. Giroux currently holds the
McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English
and Cultural Studies Department and is the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar
in Critical Pedagogy. His most recent books include: The Terror of the
Unforeseen (Los Angeles Review of books, 2019), On Critical Pedagogy, 2nd
edition (Bloomsbury, 2020); Race, Politics, and Pandemic Pedagogy: Education in
a Time of Crisis (Bloomsbury 2021); Pedagogy of Resistance: Against
Manufactured Ignorance (Bloomsbury 2022) and Insurrections: Education in the
Age of Counter-Revolutionary Politics (Bloomsbury, 2023), and coauthored with
Anthony DiMaggio, Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy
(Bloomsbury, 2025). Giroux is also a member of Truthout’s board of directors.
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