Media appearances

June 12-15, 2023

Henry A. Giroux speaking at ISLS Annual Meeting. 

January 18, 2023

Henry A. Giroux in conversation with Brad Evans. This conversation with Giroux reflects upon the seismic impact of Freire’s book, as well as its impact in our contemporary era in which neoliberalism has emerged not only as an economic model but also a public pedagogy that permeates everything.

October 31, 2022

Henry Giroux, Interviewed with Thijmen Sparkel on Education Kitchen – Education is under attack. Henry Giroux sees this (among many other things) as clear evidence that the right is systematically erasing America’s true national history.

July 5, 2022
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the age of manufactured ignorance with the scholar Professor Henry A. Giroux

June 2, 2022

The horrific mass shootings in Uvalde, Texas and Buffalo, New York

Brad Evans hosted today by Seminary Co-op bookstore on my latest book, Pedagogy of Resistance.

Henry Giroux, Interview with Jim Vrettos – Aug. 25, 2020 @ MNN NYC

Host Jim Vrettos and guests Henry Giroux, McMaster University Professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest; and Michael Pelias, Professor of Philosophy at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY; join together to discuss about the Life and Work of Stanley Aronowitz.

August 22, 2013 @ Truthout.com

Ted Asregadoo speaks to Henry A. Giroux — Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department and board member of Truthout– about his article on Truthout, “When Schools Become Dead Zones of the Imagination: A Critical Pedagogy Manifesto.”

August 31, 2013 @ YouthandWork.ca

Part one of the interview covers Professor Giroux’s perspective on recent historical events (9/11, the financial crisis, globalization, the surveillance state, retrenchment of the social welfare state, and the ongoing neoliberal project.

August 31, 2013 @ YouthandWork.ca

Part two of the interview cover Professor Giroux’s views on how youths are disciplined under the neoliberal project, how student debt is used to condition youths, how youths are now perceived to be a threat to society, and the rise of the punishing, carceral state.

August 31, 2013

Part three of the interview covers Professor Giroux’s perspective on social media, the use of language, how alternative media can be utilized by progressives, and emerging social movements like Idle No More and Occupy.

November 22, 2013 @ Moyers & Company

In his book, Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism, author and scholar Henry Giroux connects the dots to prove his theory that our current system is informed by a “machinery of social and civil death” that chills “any vestige of a robust democracy.”

June 15, 2014 @ Truthout.com

English and Cultural Studies professor, Henry A. Giroux, talks about the challenges of the Left in a neoliberal political economy.

March 27, 2014

“In a special interview, Truthout contributor Henry Giroux takes us back to the basics of what can be seen as an ongoing and accelerating war between the rich and everyone else, an event that has resulted in a mass inability “to translate private troubles into larger structural public considerations.

August 13, 2014 @ The Agenda with Steve Paikin

Author and scholar Henry Giroux sits down with Piya Chattopadhyay to discuss his new book “The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America’s Disimagination Machine.” Giroux argues that the United States’ embrace of a surveillance state and culture of violence have replaced the values of freedom, liberty and justice, putting American democracy in jeopardy.

March 2, 2015 @ TeleSUR English

Critics have long pointed out that the social media phenomena of the Selfie is rooted in vanity and narcissism. But scholar and cultural critic Henry Giroux says it is about much more. Show Host Chris Spannos speaks with Henry about the Selfie.

In this CBC TV interview, Henry Giroux explains that Donald Trump’s popularity can, in part, be attributed to at least three issues.

July 19, 2016 @ TheRealNews.com

Scholar Henry Giroux tells Paul Jay that Donald Trump is not an eccentric populist, but the representative of a neofascist politics that ignores evidence, believes truth is merely an opinion, and says dissent is unpatriotic

July 19, 2016 @ TheRealNews.com

Scholar Henry Giroux in conversation with Paul Jay says ‘lesser evilism’ is the wrong way to frame the elections – it’s about what’s better for the strategic interests of an independent people’s struggle

August 17, 2016 @ TheRealNews.com
Henry Giroux tells Paul Jay that fear is an organizing principle of U.S. society

October 27, 2016 @ BaldPolitiKs

BaldPolitiKs interviews Henry Giroux on 26 October 2016 – American at War with Itself

March 29, 2016 @ McMasterUTV

October 30, 2016 @ TheRealNews.com

Henry Giroux and Paul Jay discuss the collapsing facade of American democracy

December 26, 2016 @ TheRealNews.com

Professor Henry Giroux says the appointments signal a future of more war and violent military interventions, and an embrace of Islamophobia

January 26, 2017 @ TheRealNews.com

Henry Giroux and Paul Jay discuss the relationship between the movement against Trump’s neo-fascism and the struggle against corporate control of the Democratic Party

February 27, 2019 @ theRealNews.com

Hearings reveal deepening systemic corruption, further degeneration of GOP, progressive members standout in questioning – Jacqueline Luqman, Henry Giroux and Carmen Russell-Sluchansky join Paul Jay

Segment of episode #214 of Last Born In The Wilderness – Oct 13, 2019 @ Last Born in the Wilderness Podcast

This is a segment of episode #214 of Last Born In The Wilderness “The Unforeseen: Neoliberal Ideology & Paving The Road Towards Fascism w/ Henry Giroux.” Listen to the full episode: http://bit.ly/LBWgiroux Read Stephen Rohde’s review of Henry’s book ‘The Terror of the Unforeseen’ and purchase a copy: http://bit.ly/2LSXjzn

Under The Skin: Russell Brand, Henry Giroux and Brad Evans

Today’s guests are Henry Giroux a Professor with specialisation in Critical Pedagogy at McMaster university in Ontario, Canada and Brad Evans a Professor of Political Violence & Aesthetics at the University of Bath, UK.

February 7, 2017 @ Cable 14 Hamilton

Dr. Henry Giroux explains why it’s important for our democracy to pay attention & think about how U.S. President Donald Trump is manipulating his messaging around anger & “fear of the other” using social media & otherwise.

Henry Giroux interview with João França – July 4, 2019

An interview with founder of critical pedagogy Henry Giroux on the meaning of education, suspicions regarding neutrality and on how current uncertainties could be a driving force to rethink and generate new possibilities.

February 23, 2017 @ TheRealNews.com

Henry Giroux and Paul Jay discuss the Trump-Bannon-Pence administration, a naked display of the 1% ruling without apologies and damn what comes tomorrow

Henry Giroux interview with Marc Steiner, The Real News Network – July 18, 2019 @ TheRealNews

Henry Giroux dissects how the potential path to fascism is laid bare in Trump’s rhetoric and policies and how the voices of four new progressive Democratic congresswomen in the U.S. House of Representatives speak to another American future.

June 11, 2017 @ CTV (Canada)

Henry A. Giroux is interviewed on CTV (Canada) to provide his analysis of the political theater playing out in the US.

June 16, 2016 @ RT

Max interviews Henry Giroux, author of the forthcoming book, America at War with Itself. They discuss the descent into madness as demonstrated by the latest presidential clown show

October 14, 2016 @ Democracy Now!

In his new book, scholar Henry Giroux examines “America at War with Itself.” From poisoned water in Flint and other cities to the police deaths of African Americans to hatemongering on the presidential campaign trail, Henry Giroux critiques what he believes is a slide toward authoritarianism and other failings that led to the current political climate and rise of Donald Trump.

November 22, 2017 @ Opednews.com

Henry Giroux, author of The Public in Peril: Trump and the Menace of American Authoritarianism and, America at War with Itself, discusses, Trump’s authoritarianism, rampant neoliberalism and the rabid individualism that goes with it

Henry Giroux, Interview with Anthony Clemons – June 12, 2020 @ THE GCAS REVIEW PODCAST INTERVIEWS

Renowned cultural critic, Prof. Henry Giroux discusses the protests with Anthony Clemons, Andrew Keltner, and Creston Davis

Henry Giroux, Public Lecture – 7 May 2019 @ CENTRE CULTURAL LA MERCÈ

Open debate with Henry Giroux (2018-19): Resistance, social transformation and hope.

Henry Giroux, Interview with Pablo Rivera and Ezequiel Passeron – 5 May 2020 @ Faro Digital

Pablo Rivera and Ezequiel Passeron had the honor and privilege of talking with professor Henry Giroux, one of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in North America, to analyze the challenges of covid-19.