Henry A. Giroux

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.

October 22, 2026

Diplomacy/Judiciary

Meta Faces Record $25bn Fine in New Mexico Over Facebook Privacy and Safety Failures

Meta has been ordered to pay $25 billion by a judge in New Mexico after being found liable for repeatedly misleading Facebook users about privacy protections and content moderation. The ruling, one

Diplomacy/Geopolitics

AI-Generated Images and Bot Networks Face Scrutiny in Brazil’s Presidential Election

Brazil’s presidential election has become the focus of allegations that artificial intelligence and coordinated online networks are being used to manufacture political support, manipulate campaign imagery and influence how voters perceive the candidates. Senator Flávio Bolsonaro of the Liberal Party

October 22, 2026

Global Islamic Finance Assets Projected to Exceed $10.5 Trillion by 2030

Business

Global Islamic finance industry assets are projected to exceed US$10.5 trillion by 2030, up from US$6.5 trillion in 2025, as Islamic banking expands, sukuk

Critical PHP Security Flaws Threaten Millions of Websites Worldwide

Artificial Intelligence

Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, one of the internet’s most widely used programming languages, are threatening web applications worldwide, Germany’s Federal Office for Information

Erasing Minds: The War on Knowledge

June 3, 2025

Sri Lanka Guardian Essays

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.– Milan Kundera In an age where culture is the primary battlefield, authoritarianism thrives on ignorance, historical amnesia and the

Neoliberalism’s Grip: Universities in the Dark

November 4, 2024

Education

Education is not the filling of a vessel, but the lighting of a fire. – bell hooks In an era marked by unprecedented threats to democracy from rising authoritarian forces, universities—once celebrated citadels