Introduction
Henry Giroux on critical pedagogy and the responsibilities of the public intellectual
pt. 1. America under siege : authoritarianism and democracy
The conservative assault on America : cultural politics, education, and the new authoritarianism
Democracy and the crisis of public education : co-authored with Susan Searls Giroux
From Auschwitz to Abu Ghraib : rethinking representation as public pedagogy
pt. 2. Against fundamentalism : resisting religious extremism and market orthodoxy
Rapture politics and the passion of the religious right
Academic entrepreneurs : the corporate takeover of higher education
pt. 3. Media pedagogy : rethinking political and cultural literacy
Roll over George Orwell : representations of Newspeak in Bush's America
Breaking into the movies : film as cultural politics
Nymphet fantasies : child beauty pageants and the politics of innocence
pt. 4 Race, surveillance, and social justice
Racial politics, individualism, and the collapse of the social
Disposable youth, racism, and the politics of zero tolerance
pt. 5. Militarization, masculinity, and the spectre of Fascism
Waging war on democracy : the militarizing of public space
Private satisfactions and public disorder : Fight Club, patriarchy, and the politics of masculine violence
pt. 6. Youth, pedagogy, and the politics of hope
The abandoned generation : the Urban Debate League and the politics of possibility
Putting youth back into politics : reclaiming education and hope in dark times
Translating the future : speaking to graduating youth.