The Public in Peril Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism Critical Interventions Series

This is one of the first books to thoroughly critique the rise of Trumpism and its potential impact, nationally and globally. One of the world?s leading social critics, Giroux offers new critiques of Trump and his early Cabinet choices in the context of longer term trends, including the rise of right-wing populism, the threat of planetary peril, anti-intellectual fervor, the war on youth, a narrowing political discourse, deepening inequality and disposability, authoritarianism, the crisis of civic culture, the rise of the mass incarceration state, and more. Giroux dissects the diverse forces that led to Trump?s rise and points to pathways for resisting his authoritarian instincts. Offering a new language of hope and possibility, Giroux?s optimism is rooted especially in the resurgence of progressive politics among youth. Giroux reclaims the centrality of education to politics and boldly articulates a vision in which the radical imagination merges with civic courage as part of a broad-based struggle for a radical democracy. Deep inquiries into fast-changing and pressing issues of our time makes this book 'the essential Giroux' that citizens and students must read, debate, and act upon.

Dedication

Acknowledgment

INTRODUCTION: Militant Hope in the Age of American Authoritarianism

I. RETHINKING POLITICS AND THE POST RACIAL

Chapter 1: Anti-Politics and the Torturing of Democracy (co-authored with with Debaditya Bhattacharya)

Chapter 2: White Supremacy and Racial Cleansing Under the Regime of Donald Trump

Chapter 3: Authoritarianism in the Age of Manufactured Illiteracy

II. YOUTH, CRISIS, AND THE POLITICS OF DOMESTIC TERRORISM

Chapter 4: Terrorizing School Children in the American Police State

Chapter 5: Domestic Terrorism, Youth, and the Politics of Disposability

Chapter 6: Lyrical Fascism and Thinking Dangerously in a Time of Weaponized Ignorance

III. Beyond Neoliberal Education

Chapter 7: Defending Educators and the Struggle for Democratic Renewal

Chapter 8:Towards a Politics of Courage in Dark Times

IV. RESISTING NEOLIBERALISM’S DYSTOPIAN FUTURE

Chapter 9: Isolation and Loss in in Trump’s Dystopia

Chapter 10: Reclaiming the Radical Imagination under Neoliberal Authoritarianism

Chapter 11: Rethinking Resistance in the Second Gilded Age

V. EPILOGUE

Henry A. Giroux is currently the McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest and the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. His most recent books include Dangerous Thinking in the Age of the New Authoritarianism (2015), co-authored with Brad Evans, Disposable Futures: The Seduction of Violence in the Age of Spectacle (2015), and America at War with Itself (2017).