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This book is a series of dispatches written from the front lines of a nation teetering on the abyss of self-destruction. Written with the belief that language still matters, that critical pedagogy can still give a sense of urgency to moral witnessing, that culture is still a battlefield worth fighting for, Giroux tackles the unfolding nightmare of Trump's second presidency - a regime unshackled from even the pretense of democratic norms. He details a full-fledged fascist politics that traffics in erasure: of history, of the public good, of dissent, of bodies rendered disposable. From ICE agents disappearing students on US campus, to the attacks on USAID, to the war in Gaza, Giroux traces both the machinery of authoritarianism and the pedagogical, cultural, and civic terrains where resistance still lives. He celebrates the fire of refusal, burning in the eyes of students who resist, and faculty who speak out, immigrants who organize, people in the streets protesting, and youth who refuse to inherit a world built on lies. These are dispatches from a nation unraveling, but also from the front lines of struggle, solidarity, and radical imagination.
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Table of Contents
Part I: The Machinery of Fascism
1. The Fire This Time: Facing the Fascist Capture of America
2. The Politics of Cruelty and the Unraveling of the Social in the Age of Authoritarianism
3. Democracy Disappeared: The Return of Fascism in America and the Politics of Erasure
4. The Politics of Cleansing: On Fascism's Revival in Trump's America
Part II: Authoritarianism and the Assault on Memory, History, and Education
1. Erasing History, Erasing Democracy: The Authoritarian Assault on Education
2. Abducting Bodies, Silencing Dissent: Mahmoud Khalil and the Rise of State Terror
3. Unmasking Fascism: Edward Said's Pedagogy of Wakefulness in an Age of Educational Repression
Part III: Culture as War Zone and Site of Struggle
8. Culture as a Pedagogical Battlefield in the Fight Against Fascism
9. Tears of Blood: Eugenics, Disposability, and the War on Children
Section IV: Youth, Resistance, and the Struggle for Radical Democracy
10.The Fire Next Time: Youth, Education, and the Struggle for a Radical Democracy
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| Published | 11 Aug 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 224 |
| ISBN | 9781350603059 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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