Guest Commentator
BC Guest Commentator Henry A. Giroux currently holds the McMaster University Chair for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the English and Cultural Studies Department and is the Paulo Freire Distinguished Scholar in Critical Pedagogy. His latest books are The Burden of Conscience: Educating Beyond the Veil of Silence (Bloomsbury in 2025); Assassins of Memory: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Erasure (Bloomsbury, 2026). He is LA Progressive's Associate Editor.
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Guest Commentary
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From ICE raids and protest prosecutions to attacks on universities, journalists, and historical memory, authoritarianism is being embedded in American life.
Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently – Rosa Luxemburg Every democracy worthy of the name recognizes a simple but indispensable…
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The world's richest man embodies an oligarchic system that turns exploitation into achievement, racism into political spectacle, and unchecked private wealth into a weapon against democracy.
You can't have capitalism without racism.—Malcolm X Elon Musk is less an aberration than the grotesque byproduct of a capitalist order that converts inequality into virtue,…
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What we are witnessing is fascism unbound, armed with military force and insulated by media silence.
I watched the January 3rd nightly coverage on CBS and NBC of the U.S. assault on Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and his…
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