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 1, 2026

Columns/Geopolitics

Nicaragua’s ‘Lived Democracy’ Under Siege

From once-violent streets in Masaya to nationwide consultations on electoral reform, Nicaragua’s government is presenting its political changes as a defence of popular sovereignty against Washington’s growing involvement in Latin American elections.

Iran/World

IRGC Appeals Directly to Americans, Declaring Iran Victorious in Seven-Month War

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has issued an unusually direct appeal to the American public, academics, students and journalists, declaring that Iran has prevailed in the seven-month war with the United States and Israel while urging Americans to challenge

September 30, 2026

UN Slams Sri Lanka Over Detention of Former Spy Chief

Human Rights/Judiciary/Sri Lanka

Four United Nations human rights mandate holders have warned the Sri Lankan government of an “immediate and grave” risk of further torture and ill-treatment

Sri Lanka Court Orders Return of $916,537 Stolen in Cyberattack on Taiwanese Bank

Geopolitics/News

A Sri Lankan court on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of US$916,537 held at the state-owned Bank of Ceylon and its return to Taiwan’s

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