“Henry Giroux has become the Left’s most articulate and insightful critic of America’s distorted political life, highlighting its authoritarian turn and the political illiteracy that our culture fosters and that the media helps channel into racism, the worship of money and power, and an ethos of survival-of-the-fittest that produces the foundation for renewed fascistic movements.” ―Tikkun Magazine

“[Giroux’s book] America at War with Itself is a richly textured exposition that evaluates and interrelates political history and present day developments here and abroad.” ―Chicago Life Magazine (distributed by the Sunday New York Times)

In this searing critique of the Trump presidency and the rise of authoritarianism in the United States, Henry Giroux asks: “How have we arrived here, and what can be done?” In a discussion of events that ranges from the Administration’s ongoing attempts to repeal Obamacare and its anti-immigration policies and travel bans, to the normalization of a culture of cruelty and the “weaponization of ignorance,” Giroux details the urgency of our current crisis.

Giroux explores the political dystopias―those of recent history and those depicted in some of the classics of Western literature―that result when authoritarian forces outmaneuver accountability. He argues that only through increased civic investment in multicultural democracy, education, and resistance can we hope to push back the ominous convergence of white nationalism and elite economic interests.

Henry A. Giroux’s most recent books include The Violence of Organized Forgetting and America at War With Itself. A prolific writer and political commentator, he has appeared on a wide range of media, including Democracy Now! and Bill Moyers.