Capitalism and Culture

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 Pedagogy of Resistance: Against Manufactured Ignorance (Bloomsbury, 2022); Insurrections: Education in the Age of Counter-revolutionary Politics (Bloomsbury, 2023), co-authored with Anthony DiMaggio; Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy (Bloomsbury, 2024); Burden of Conscience: Educating Beyond the Veil of Silence (Bloomsbury, 2025); and his forthcoming Assassins of Memory: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Erasure (Bloomsbury). His website is www.henryagiroux.com

A critical tour-de-force, bringing Henry Giroux's visionary intellect to bear on the stormy political atmosphere we now inhabit. The book dissects today's climate of rising authoritarianism and exposes how gangster capitalism weaponises culture. A much-needed resource for making sense of these troubled times.David Trend, Professor, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, University of California, IrvineHenry Giroux's work is a rallying cry. Sharp, accessible, urgent - and essential reading.Anthony Luvera, Associate Professor Photography, Coventry UniversityHenry Giroux does not write books - he forges weapons out of words. For decades, his thought has been a lantern carried through the ruins, guiding generations of students and scholars toward the possibility of freedom. This latest book - a selection of some of his most important and urgent essays - is no lantern. It is a trumpet blast at the gates, a thunderclap tearing open the sky. It warns that we stand at the edge of a graveyard civilization, where the culture of cruelty has grown so vast that it corrodes not only our institutions but our very souls. Fascism, in Giroux's telling, is not merely the enemy at the door; it is the poison that seeps into our capacity to reason, to dream, to love. And yet, in the cadence of his sentences, resistance flickers alive. Giroux insists that thought itself can still be insurgent, that love can still be revolutionary, that pedagogy - when sharpened - becomes nothing less than an act of insurrection against the machinery of forgetting. To read him now is to hear the summons of history: to choose between surrender to barbarism or the hard, luminous work of reclaiming our shared humanity.Peter McLaren, Emeritus Professor, School of Education and Information Studies, University of California, Los AngelesHenry Giroux is a master explorer and this book richly exemplifies his findings.Richard D Wolff, Visiting Professor of Economics, New School University, New YorkAn important anthology of writings for these perilous times by one of the leading social critics around. Henry Giroux constitutes a crag of sanity in an ocean of brutal fascist madness.Peter Mayo, UNESCO Chair in Global Adult Education, University of Malta

• Publisher's Note Preface: Culture, Fascism and the Struggle for Democracy in the 21st Century Capitalism and CultureCulture as a Battlefield in the Fight Against AuthoritarianismThe Spectacle of ViolenceLanguage in the Age of Fascist Politics Rhythms of Resistance Unmasking Fascism Rebranded Fascism and the Burden of Conscience Speech at the University of the West of Scotland We Can Still Save Education. And That's the Key to Saving Democracy War Crimes Against Those Who Risk Everything to Tell the TruthWhere There's Smoke, There's Fire: Isaac Cordal's Art Confronts Fascism About the Author