The public in peril : Trump and the menace of American authoritarianism /
Henry A. Giroux
- New York : Routledge, 2018
- ix, 312 pages ; 23 cm
Part 1. Rethinking politics and the post racial. Anti-politics and the torturing of democracy / with Debaditya Bhattacharya White supremacy and racial cleansing under the regime of Donald Trump Authoritarianism in the age of manufactured Illiteracy Part 2. Youth, crisis, and the politics of terrorism. Terrorizing school children in the American police state Domestic terrorism, youth, and the politics of disposability Lyrical fascism and thinking dangerously in a time of weaponized ignorance Part 3. Beyond neoliberal education. Defending educators and the struggle for democratic renewal Towards a politics of courage in dark times Part 4. Sisting neoliberalism's dystopian future. Isolation and loss in Trumps dystopia Reclaiming the radical imagination under neoliberal authoritarianism Rethinking resistance in the second Gilded Age
"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 Trumps rise and points to pathways for resisting his authoritarian instincts. Offering a new language of hope and possibility, Girouxs 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."